Golfers react as Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp all go DOWN!

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down for a significant time on Monday and it's fair to say the issue caused chaos with social media fans. Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose and Brooks Koepka also had their say during the major outage.

The three apps are all owned by Facebook and are run on a shared infrastructure, and they stopped working at around 4.45pm earlier today. Facebook Messenger and Workplace also crashed. 

A similar issue with the three apps was recorded in April 2019, when they crashed for around two hours before returning to being fully functional.

Facebook appeared to have had its DNS records taken from the global routing tables earlier today. At least according to Brian Krebs, a cyber security expert who runs a popular blog.

Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://t.co/qHzVq2Mr4E or https://t.co/JoIPxXI9GI got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?

— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021

Twitter, however, had no such problems - and that is where just about everyone in the world was hanging out to consume their golf content today.

Garcia posted a funny meme on Twitter while seeing both Instagram down and Facebook down, while Rose wanted to know how his followers were coping without social media for the afternoon. He also posted a little competition.

Koepka posted his famous eye-rolling Bryson DeChambeau photograph in response to Twitter's own tweet.

LPGA Tour star Jessica Korda got involved, too. 

Facebook and Instagram both returned to normal service at around 11pm U.K. time, with WhatsApp back an hour later.

https://t.co/Qrrpi6C71J pic.twitter.com/GrRBeiuiFZ

— Brooks Koepka (@BKoepka) October 4, 2021

Is everyone else on here too?

— Jessica Korda (@Thejessicakorda) October 4, 2021

And I took offense to that. pic.twitter.com/FMtEz5uf47

— Sergio Garcia (@TheSergioGarcia) October 4, 2021

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— Justin ROSE (@JustinRose99) October 4, 2021

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