BANGKOK — Some thought they’d been hacked. Others thought their loved ones had cut them off. A few took the opportunity to reflect on their technological dependence.
When the most popular chatting application went down for several hours Thursday night, many Thais were more than just bereft of sending cute stickers to each other. Line went down for a wide swath of users starting at about 11pm until the early hours of Friday, leading users to take to Twitter to complain.
“#TheyCanLiveWithoutMe but without Line, I can’t live,” @Mheehook said, using another popular hashtag about heartbreak.
Some users said they couldn’t send any sort of messages while others could only send text messages without attached media. Others were unable to video call. The glitch was experienced on both the mobile and desktop versions.
As of late Friday morning, Line Thailand had given no explanation for the outage.
Tweeters took to using #LineDown to express their consternation at being unable to send bunny and duck stickers.
#ไลน์ล่ม เมื่อคืนนี้ทำให้ต้องหันกลับมาทบทวนตัวเองว่า เอาชีวิตผูกติดอยู่กับไลน์+โซเชียลไว้ขนาดไหน วัดได้จากระดับความหงุดหงิดและกังวลใจกันตรงๆไหนจะข้อมูล+ภาพสำคัญๆก็เก็บก็ส่งกันง่ายๆ ต้องระวังตัวกันให้ดีๆ เคสโดนแฮ็คไลน์ผมเคยเจอกับตัวเคยเป็นข่าวมาแล้ว … #กระดานตั้ม #เรือนดีเจ pic.twitter.com/Cqg6jwXoXL
— DJTUM | COOLJ.TUM (@DJTUMM) May 18, 2018
“Last night, I had to take a hard look at myself. Much of my life is tied to Line and social media, according to my irritation and worry levels,” wrote @Djtumm. “Important messages and photos are just kept here. We have to be careful. I’ve been personally hacked on Line.”
จะทะเลาะกันเพราะไลน์ล่มนี่แหละ
“บล็อกผมป่าว”
อือ ไม่บล็อกก็เหมือนบล็อกแล้วแหละ#ไลน์ #ไลน์ล่ม #อวสานไลน์— I.SASIMA (@Dokkatiw) May 17, 2018
“We were about to fight because of #LineDown. ‘Did you block me?’” @Dokkatiw tweeted. “Sigh. Even if you didn’t block me, it’s like you did anyway.”
A Facebook post by iPhoneMod.net Facebook page posted 11:42pm Thursday asked people if they were having problems with Line and got over 8,700 likes as of Friday morning. “I thought my internet was down at first. Both my mobile phones using AIS and True didn’t work; it turns out Line is broken. Damn 555+” wrote commenter Paphitchaya Marnyapohn.
ไหนขอเช็คผู้ร่วมชะตากรรรม #ไลน์ #line #ไลน์ล่ม #Line
— 张亚兰 (@publicyalan) May 17, 2018
According to an unscientific poll by @Publicyalan, almost 80 percent of users experienced Line glitches.
#ไม่มีเราเขาก็อยู่ได้ แต่ถ้าไม่มีไลน์ เราอยู่ไม่ได้แน่นอน 💔 #ไลน์ #line #ไลน์ล่ม #ไลน์เจ๊ง
— หมีฮุก รวมมุกหมีๆ (@mheehook) May 17, 2018
“#TheyCanLiveWithoutMe but without Line, I can’t live,” joked @mheehook, using another hashtag about heartbreak.
