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Instagram crashes: Photo-sharing website does down again... so users take to Twitter instead

Social media alive with complaints and jokes at the expense of companies 'technical issues'

Ian Johnston
Thursday 28 August 2014 22:33 BST
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Photo-sharing website Instagram has crashed
Photo-sharing website Instagram has crashed

Photo-sharing website Instagram crashed on Thursday night, prompting a flurry of complaints and jokes on social media.

“Instagram is experiencing some technical issues. We're aware and working on a fix,” it said on its Twitter account.

Its main website was a blank page apart from the words “server error”.

Understanding the effect on some users, Gossip website Radar Online ‏tweeted: “So @instagram is down... Is everyone doing ok? #WeFeelYourPain.”

Instagram user Dave Turner tweeted: “Looks like i am spending the night driving around friends' houses asking to look at their dinners again.”

Alex Goldschmidt joked: “How am I supposed to flirt with boys I like by liking their selfies if Instagram is down?”

Bryce Alford pondered a social media apocalypse: “What if Twitter and Instagram went down at the same time. Folks wouldn’t know what to do,” he said.

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