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Instagram (still) down, users complain on Twitter


Breakdowns are quite common on social networks.
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Instagram (still) down, users complain on Twitter


08/03 at 11:42 am

Update 08/03 at 2:10 p.m.

Some nighttime users of the beloved Instagram social network encountered a bug all over the world on Monday, August 2. Faced with a mysterious error message, they took to Twitter under the hashtag #instagramdown to see if other people were in their situation.

At around 10 p.m. on Monday, very bad news arose when we opened the Instagram application: an error message limiting actions on the social network. “Please try again later. We are limiting the frequency of certain actions you can take on Instagram to protect our community.” can we read there.

Many users have had a cold sweat from it, thinking of a hack. Some could no longer see the stories appearing on their feed, while others ran into a blank screen as soon as they tried to browse the app. Problems encountered for about two hours according to the specialized site DownDetector.

Torrent of reactions on Twitter

To get answers, Instagram users took to Twitter and quickly realized that they weren’t the only ones in this situation. The victims of the bug have grouped together under the hashtag #instagramdown (“Instagram down”).

While waiting for the app to work again, they were self-deprecating about their addiction to the app and made fun of these social networks which regularly buggy as shown in the tweets below.

Why so many bugs?

This isn’t the first time Instagram has experienced an outage. In fact, social networks regularly suffer from these little bugs. Lately, Snapchat and TikTok have been dealing with these nasty micro-failures.

Last March, it was Facebook, Whatsapp and again Instagram. The technical incident had been short-lived but the parent company Facebook had been stingy in explaining the origins of the bug. Most of the time, this kind of failure would come from poorly orchestrated updates or server migration.

Failures that Twitter can bless, as users of its competitors flock to its site for answers. Jack Dorsey’s social network is indeed the least subject to this kind of incident.

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