Many social media users all over the world panicked earlier today when the world’s largest photo-sharing site, Instagram went down for about an hour. The site and its app crashed for over an hour.
The site and its app crashed just days after both of Instagram’s founders resigned from Facebook and barely a day after a new boss was appointed to the company.
It is gathered that reports of the crash started just after 5pm AEST from Australia, Japan, India, America, the UK, and Europe, with the company’s website displaying nothing but a “5xx Server Error” message. The app, on the other hand, told users, “We’re sorry, but something went wrong”.
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Due to the crash, many users took to other social media sites, including Twitter, to share their dismay. See some reactions to the crash below:
https://twitter.com/Colin_Music1301/status/1047395153747562496
https://twitter.com/baeu_taeful/status/1047393492052451328
*turns off wifi*
*turns on data*
*turns phone off and on*
*uninstall and install instagram*
*goes on twitter*#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/jLU4m52QSb— jess (@sugarhoex) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/anxietyprincxss/status/1047397670615056384
I wonder how much money Instagram and businesses on Instagram are losing every second it’s down. #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/h3dlUbY3eW
— Dr. ADO (@WilliamAdoasi) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/CVMN209/status/1047394700255158272
#instagramdown I logged out, tried to log back in, uninstalled, reinstalled, turned off my phone, turned it back on, restarted it, and then I cried pic.twitter.com/pr7s8fOMxD
— Christina Rice (@Christi34858477) October 3, 2018
How I went to twitter to type #instagramdown to see if it was just me pic.twitter.com/aWT3HlHAnS
— UNO K 🥷 (@SheLoveDumar) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/stfuanis/status/1047395917983150080
Me refreshing my Instagram every min to see if it’s back on again 😄 #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/JRZvbvnpht
— Promise P (@TamangPhan) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/konaridesmel/status/1047394024276066305
https://twitter.com/issycolasante/status/1047397446823735296
One director/ filmmaker in nollywood just thought of making a movie titled Instagram is down #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/HgfSwW3k5o
— O.rire (@Orire_) October 3, 2018
The outage comes just days after over 50 million Facebook accounts were breached by hackers.
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