Instagram Suffers Outage, #ThrowbackThursday Interrupted

It’s not just you. Instagram went offline this afternoon. Users couldn’t post — alas on #ThrowbackThursday — to the photo sharing app. It’s mobile app feeds weren’t refreshing and the desktop site was flashing an error message. Instagram took to Twitter to tell users it’s working on the problem: Instagram is experiencing some technical issues. […]

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It’s not just you. Instagram went offline this afternoon. Users couldn’t post — alas on #ThrowbackThursday — to the photo sharing app. It’s mobile app feeds weren’t refreshing and the desktop site was flashing an error message.

Instagram took to Twitter to tell users it’s working on the problem:

Postscript (Aug. 28, 5:45 p.m. Eastern): After nearly two hours of downtime, Instagram appears to be back online. Oddly, the company deleted its tweet about the outage; and hasn’t updated its Twitter followers.


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Martin Beck
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Martin Beck was Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter from March 2014 through December 2015.

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