Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram faced global outage during the early hours of Friday across the globe. The page was showing ‘5xx Server Error.’ The outage started around 3.30 am India time forcing Twitterati to trend #InstagramDown.
However, before showing ‘5xx Server Error,’ Instagram was showing error message ‘Sorry, something went wrong’ while attempting to load the page. The message also read, “we’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
Initially the outage affected the desktop users before mobile users too began to face similar outage.
Within minutes Twitterati were seen posting thousands of tweets leading to hashtag #InstagramDown trend on the microblogging site. More than one lakh tweets were posted using the hashtag within 30 minutes of the outage affecting millions of users worldwide. Here are some of their reactions:
Instagram users coming on Twitter like #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/6oilhIe8nx
— Mdog (@g_malyssa) June 13, 2019
#instagramdown
Instagrammers running to twitter to see if Instagram is down pic.twitter.com/EaVbpucDrG— 6 TIMES (@UefaBlicence89) June 13, 2019
Me after making sure Instagram is really down after checking twitter #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/FdCHHbrqjL
— Jim Blazes (@BlazesJim) June 13, 2019
Me casually using instagram and getting that “sorry couldnt refresh feed shit” #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/SvwdZeQDsV
— Seunghae (@Fucksojuboy) June 13, 2019
twitter to instagram rn ??♀️ #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/chxtOWAH8J
— Michaela Fletcher ? (@bloodyywrist) June 13, 2019
Me refreshing Instagram and waiting for it to work again because I have nothing better to do with my life #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/TRj8kPR3d1
— •Abbi• (@xpetcheetox) June 13, 2019
Twitter going off on Instagram for being down for the 14th time this year #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/gpiNrNTcsc
— Charlie Koehn (@charlie_koehn) June 13, 2019