LinkedIn, the go-to platform for professionals, went dark globally on Wednesday evening for thousands of users. LinkedIn"™s service stumble leaves users in the lurch(File Image) DownDetector flags the outage shortly after 3:45 PM ET. Both LinkedIn"™s mobile applications and its website succumbed to the blackout. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. LinkedIn acknowledged the problem on their status page at 4:04 PM ET, stating, "Some members may be experiencing issues on LinkedIn. We"™re actively working on this and will provide updates as we have them. Thanks for your patience!" The disruption was short-lived, however, with services restored by 5:05 PM ET, as LinkedIn announced, "This has now been resolved and we"™re back up and running. Apologies for any inconvenience caused and thanks for your patience!" ALSO READ| Facebook, Instagram outage: Memes on X mock Mark Zuckerberg and his India visit This incident came hot on the heels of yesterday's massive Meta outage. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experienced a nearly two-hour downtime. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reported that Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, saw his net worth shrink by 2.2%, a staggering loss of nearly $3 billion. The back-to-back outages have sparked a wave of memes among netizensAn X (formerly Twitter) user expressed, "Within the last 24 hours we"™ve had outages on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Last week we had a T-Mobile outage. They (not sure who this is yet) are doing their trial runs for the grid shutdown as we speak. World gonna huge end soon." Another one lamented, "LinkedIn totally down for me. Both on the Android app and the web. Can"™t even access my feed," while another quipped, "I guess LinkedIn is not"¦ linked"¦ in"¦ lol." "Why did I just hear someone unemployed say "LinkedIn being down is sign I don"™t need a job" bruh our economy is never getting better," one posted. Another one was even more hilarious: "I"™m in my best looking for a job on #LinkedIn, and all of the sudden goes down! Is that a sign I shouldn"™t work0踠