Hasta La Gadget!

You know, the world ought to really move on even though a service on the Internet is not working. However, some services are deemed to be way more popular and important than the others, which leads to a slight down time generating plenty of headlines. Take Instagram for instance – this particular Web service was down earlier today, and not just for a certain group of people or in a particular country, but for everyone. I guess this temporary relief from Instagram use could see the time freed from Instagramming to be used in a different manner.

A service status site did point to Instagram being down for approximately an hour, and there was no comment from the folks over at Instagram concerning the down time earlier in the day, before they stepped forward to declare that they are aware of the issue, and are working a solution to restore its services to normal. Apparently, the feed delivery issue needs a fix, and right before lunch, it did seem as though the service has started to come back online slowly but surely. I guess it took approximately three hours thereabouts for everything to return back to normal. How did you spend your time without checking up on your Instagram account?

Instagram Down, And Up Again , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, instagram,

Instagram seems to be having some technical difficulties updating its feeds right now. Guess you’ll just have to share your brunch pictures sans filter. [Instagram]

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Admit it: there’s someone you dislike who you follow on Instagram not in spite of your disdain, but because of it. Who is it? Spill. This is a safe space.

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When it comes to the tech world, you can be sure that exponential growth is nothing new at all, in fact, it might seem to be more of the norm than the exception. Having said that, today marks the day that Instagram has seen its community of active users achieve the 200 million mark and beyond. This is quite an achievement, where to date, more than 20 billion photos have been shared on the Instagram platform, and there does not seem to be any sign of it slowing down anytime soon.

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Instagram Hits 200 Million Active Users original content from Ubergizmo.

London looks cool from street-level. London looks really, really cool from a helicopter—specifically from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Air Support Unit, a fleet of three that flies around providing support to the ground-bound team below. In between felony-fighting duties, the officers manage to take some truly incredible urban shots.

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