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Companies Seize on Facebook Outage to Crack at Joke at Mark Zuckerberg’s Expense

Companies Seize on Facebook Outage to Crack at Joke at Mark Zuckerberg’s Expense

Twitter Inc.’s users are reveling in the aftermath of Facebook Inc.’s hours-long outage, and it’s not just professional satirists getting involved. Company public relations departments have seized on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram’s tech meltdown to try to crack a joke at founder Mark Zuckerberg’s expense. 

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey joked that he might buy Facebook’s internet domain name:

Here’s Netflix giving Dorsey some free publicity:

U.K. food chain Pizza Express continues the “advantage Twitter” theme: 

European discount grocer Aldi joined in with a reference to Netflix’s latest hit:

Burger King trying here:

And even chocolate brands don’t want to be left out:

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