Instagram, a subsidiary of Facebook, has gone offline again – unfortunately. This particular outage definitely does not bode well for the company, as even a half hour outage would mean plenty of lost revenue in terms of advertising for Instagram. In fact, the outage this time around would follow Facebook’s longest ever period of inactivity for some time now, when the servers of Instagram, Tinder, AIM and Hipchat were shut down for a total of 2.5 hours. The entire Instagram went offline this time around lasted for approximately an hour – and this is a worldwide outage, where for select users, it translated to roughly 30 minutes of the inability to post stuff on Instagram.
It goes without saying then that in such a situation, users would then take to other channels – such as Twitter, for instance, in order to drop some complains concerning the outage of the service. Needless to say, Instagram happened to be one of the top trending keywords, at least for a few hours not too long ago.
With over 300 million active users, Instagram ought to do their bit to make sure that there is no such thing as an outage, although it is a good thing that an Instagram outage does not translate to a life and death situation – unlike a massive power cut that could affect hospitals and all who are on life support.
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