Instagram Went Down for 15 Minutes and People Freaked Out
When your photo sharing app is used by hundreds of millions of users around the world, there are a lot of sad and angry people when your service goes down. Instagram crashed for about 15 minutes yesterday — coincidentally April Fools’ Day — and people freaked out.
Instagram is down since 03:08 AM ESThttps://t.co/NHUChGLqFt
RT if it's down for you as well #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/XIjEYv2W4B— Outage Report (@ReportOutage) April 1, 2016
*Not an #aprilfoolsday thing pic.twitter.com/VRPs0VheTG
— Matt Navarra ⭐️ (@MattNavarra) April 1, 2016
Users began taking to Twitter to find answers and express their anger and frustration. Much of the outcry was rather humorous.
@instagram WHAT HAPPENED WHERE ARE YOU I NEED YOU BBY
— Jaymi (@smolxj) April 1, 2016
When Instagram is down ? pic.twitter.com/S7LqN0ENVW
— Rex (@RexdaIe) April 1, 2016
Instagram stop trying to be funny. #Aprilfools #Instagramdown
— NikkieTutorials (@NikkieTutorials) April 1, 2016
Instagram being down = the worst #AprilFools prank ever. #Instagramdown
— 9GAG (@9GAG) April 1, 2016
Instagram is down. I just had to walk outside to show people what I actually look like lifting weights in my bikini #NoFilter #InstagramDown
— Simon te Brinke (@gramercypark) April 1, 2016
When #Instagramdown… I am down.
Ain't feeling this #aprilfoolsday stuff.
— Teejay Hughes (@TeeJayHughes) April 1, 2016
Instagram is down… this is not an #aprilfools#Instagram #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/GeeeJnOhMg
— Comb (@HelloComb) April 1, 2016
Instagram is down!!
No one is going to know what I had for breakfast#instagram #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/3dZ48dB3fn
— Liam Doolan (@_liamdoolan) April 1, 2016
love the new @instagram update pic.twitter.com/stApKXZIpO
— jade ♡☽ (@deyesnjh) April 1, 2016
Instagram is down pic.twitter.com/ms2LUGqpbe
— Joel (@Gallucks) April 1, 2016
When everybody acting like instagram glitch was a life crisis ?
— JAYW. (@ayeee_twin) April 1, 2016
Some major news publications soon wrote articles about the outage. Instagram’s service was restored at about 3:25AM for most people, and order was restored to the universe.
