People travelling over the weekend all across the world were left stranded after Google Maps went down on Friday. The outage, sparked a flurry of jokes, with most users startled that the service was unavailable.

People were having trouble loading maps on their phones, making navigation hard, causing netizens to resort to Twitter to discover if it was a one-time issue.

Read more: Google Maps Tips and Tricks: What else you can do with google maps other than finding routes?

⚠️🗺 Google Maps is currently experiencing a service outage that may affect users of Flightradar24 on the web and in our Android app. Google is currently working to restore service. We'll post updates in this thread.

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 18, 2022

Google did not disclose any additional details regarding the outage or what caused it, but the Google Maps platform status dashboard acknowledged the event and noted that services had been disrupted.

A few hours later, Google declared that the issue had been rectified. A business spokesman told Mashable, “We can confirm that the technical issue from earlier today is now fixed.”

Here are some of the most amusing responses to the outage:

wow, I've never seen a google maps outage like this

— fool's spring (@palvaro) March 18, 2022

https://twitter.com/JRoc23/status/1504856116005646336

Everyone right after google maps goes down… pic.twitter.com/9HaO3PfOk0

— River sethe (@river_sethe) March 18, 2022

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Me on my second week in a new city, apartment hunting, and google maps is down pic.twitter.com/TDgsxiZ87h

— Amelia Meecham, PhD (@ameliameech) March 18, 2022

Google Maps is down. iPhone users switching over to Apple Maps bout to be like: pic.twitter.com/uYOOHANRpI

— JoeyBlack (@JoeyBlack007) March 18, 2022

Google maps is down.. Time to dust off ol’ reliable pic.twitter.com/zwuosRBGBZ

— 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 (@ElevatedNinja) March 18, 2022

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me trying to get to my destination while google maps is down pic.twitter.com/wcv2u2zawH

— sydney (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ (@fcknsyd) March 18, 2022

Google Maps is down and now we have to read road signs like some kind of caveman pic.twitter.com/eWEaRjILxF

— Mr. Squatchski (@MRoboski) March 18, 2022

Me when google maps isn’t working pic.twitter.com/5cMji6WTNM

— Jonna (@collins_jonna) March 18, 2022

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Google Maps right now pic.twitter.com/1wXwcYV2kj

— 🇺🇲George Nada, Ph.D🇺🇲 (@GrilledChees420) March 18, 2022

Google Maps Down

Apple Maps Be Like:#GoogleMaps #GoogleDown pic.twitter.com/at3PT1ms7W

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— Patel Meet (@mn_google) March 18, 2022

Not Google maps abandoning me and making me have to redownload Apple Maps…. pic.twitter.com/OkCYK46oiN

— It's Niffin (@JustMeLorrz) March 18, 2022

In the past hour we have learned that our navigation preferences are as follows:
1. Google Maps when it isn’t broken
2. Guess and check
3. Loading up Google Maps to see if it’s still broken
4. Asking someone
5. Apple Maps

— Eric Skoglund (@eskoglund) March 18, 2022

google maps is down. thank god i remember my way to the fridge 😩

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— Swiggy (@swiggy_in) March 18, 2022