Instagram experienced widespread disruption worldwide and in India. Even though the disruption occurred early in the morning in India, thousands of users reported it on Twitter and Downdetector.in. Following a ‘brief disruption’, Instagram has announced that their services are back online.
Downdetector.in revealed a dramatic increase in Instagram disruption reports. The webs5:20 a.m.ite that monitors disruptions worldwide reported more than 9,500 instances of the outage in India. The outage began at appro4 a.m.ately 4AM (IST) and persisted until approximately 5:20AM. According to Downdetector, there were over 1,88,000 instances of disruption worldwide. It is one of the largest outages the Meta-owned company has experienced in recent years.
In a tweet from the company’s official handle, Instagram said, “Instagram is back! Sorry for the trouble – we had a brief outage earlier and resolved the issue that caused it. #instagramdown”
Instagram is back! Sorry for the trouble – we had a brief outage earlier and resolved the issue that caused it. #instagramdown
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) May 22, 2023
Users were quick to respond to the outage with a flurry of memes on Twitter.
everybody coming to twitter when instagram is down pic.twitter.com/pNkZkkeJSt
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) May 21, 2023
not instagram down pic.twitter.com/Q7opiKYo7J
— ryan (@fandomsvisual) May 21, 2023
me leaving instagram when i see “couldn’t refresh feed” #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/10O0kZeyro
— cameron (@cambeserious) May 21, 2023
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