'Sorry WiFi, I doubted you': Usual memes resurface as Instagram faces brief global outage

DISCLAIMER: This is a compilation of tweets being shared by netizens around the world. Times of India neither condones nor endorses any of the views shared in this article here.
Meta-owned Instagram was back online after a brief global outage on Tuesday as users witnessed errors saying the app couldn't refresh, while it also went blank for some others.
According to the website outage tracking portal DownDetector, more than 59,000 users reported the outage issue.

Around 85 percent of people had reported problems with the app, 10 percent while using the website, and 6 percent with the Instagram feed.
"Every time I went to launch the app, it would crash, leave my feeds blank, and my messages would vanish. This was happening with my personal account, which was linked to my business account," a user said.
"I can't access my IG account or the web on either my PC or my phone, no matter what I do. I've been attempting to do this for a while. It is very annoying," another user wrote.
Later, #Instagramdown also started trending on Twitter (Now X) after users witnessed the outage.
"Instagram being down almost gave me a heart attack thinking they took down my account #instagramdown," a user tweeted.
Instagram has encountered its third outage within a month. The initial incident took place on July 11, affecting all Meta platforms, such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Following that, on July 20, Instagram experienced a second outage, impacting users worldwide. Despite these recurrent outages, the company has not issued any official statement to address the situation.
Frequent outages left Instagram users frustrated, who flooded the social media with usual memes.









(with inputs from IANS)