New Delhi: Millions of users across the globe were exhausted from repeatedly refreshing their feeds and yet being unable of sending text messages on the video-sharing platform Instagram on Tuesday night.
Many reportedly kept deleting and reinstalling their Insta app, while some further took the matter with their service providers, yet the issue didn’t resolve for hours.
However, the frustrated users got all their answers when they moved to the microblogging site Twitter, where ‘#InstagramDown’ was trending on the top with users across the globe reporting similar problems regarding the functioning of the platform.
In a span of few hours, the Insta malfunction drew an unbeatable meme fest by Netizens, joined in by hilarious GIFs online.
A Twitter user name Ankita Roy Chaudhary shared a snap from Hindi comedy-drama Phir Hera Pheri with Akshay Kumar and Johnny Lever running ahead of a crowd with caption, “People rushing to Twitter, to confirm whether Instagram is really down or not”.
*People rushing to Twitter, to confirm whether Instagram is really down or not* pic.twitter.com/AJHFMMdOni
— Ankita Roy Choudhury (@thetrippinbug) July 5, 2022
While an another user named Alex wrote, “Me waiting for the instagram dm’s to work again to see the 0 dms I have on Instagram”, along with a pic of a clown checking his phone.
Me waiting for the instagram dm’s to work again to see the 0 dms I have #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/ug9k1FroWJ
— Alex (@alexculee) July 5, 2022
Check top Twitter reactions here:
Me to Instagram after refreshing my phone 3 times and reinstalling Instagram 2 times.#instadown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/SIiZ2EsgBB
— Sarah (@sarahzafarrr) July 5, 2022
#Instagramdown People coming to twitter in order to
see what happen to Instagram pic.twitter.com/whRGiSSkEm— Hemanta Bhandari (@hemantasha) July 5, 2022
Me apologizing to my internet after blaming it for insta being down:#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/B9zOYmlox9
— Manish Parab (@maniparab_07) July 5, 2022
me waking up every 5 mins to see if Instagram is working… #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/HpLzf79PX7
— Jess (@J24masx) July 5, 2022
Me pretending im shocked that instagram went down again for the 20th time this year #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/t2Ih1DJzYJ
— ??????? (@PapaKoalaYT) July 5, 2022
footage me fixing instagram cause nobody else is.
#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/LQR1UVpDYW— hot for the green mnm (@jdigglydawg) July 5, 2022
USE ME AS INSTGRAM NOT WORKING BUTTON
LIKE: NOT WORKING ?
RETWEET: WORKING #instagramdown #Instagram pic.twitter.com/KkS0KDTMUE— Lakshya Lalotra (@LakshyaLalotra) July 6, 2022
me refreshing my instagram feed for the 73th time only to realize #instagramdown again pic.twitter.com/z6LOshwlLq
— something crazy (@somethingmemss) July 6, 2022
People coming to Twitter to check whether Instagram is down again #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/JumkIotYO3
— Patel Meet (@mn_google) July 6, 2022
Me trying to log in on Instagram to watch my dms #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/5uobtYhOhk
— Alex (@alexculee) July 5, 2022
Me after watching tutorials on YouTube to fix the Instagram dms just to find out its servers are down again.#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/VZV5Xpvya6
— Suffiyan Saeed (@SuffiyanSaeed_) July 5, 2022
Meanwhile, if media reports are to be believed, the event of Instagram going down was not erupted by due to internet issues, but due to a technical glitch on behave of the app itself.
The snag further remained for atleast 12 hours on Tuesday.