San Francisco Oct 3 (IANS) Facebook-owned photo sharing platform Instagram on Wednesday suffered a global outage as the application and website both were hit by unknown issues for over one billion users.
According to the Down Detector portal there was a huge spike in complaints on Wednesday afternoon.
The users were greeted with empty profiles and a message that the app "cannot refresh feed".
Users took to Twitter to complain about the outage. The micro-blogging site was flooded with memes and jokes when the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform went down.
A Twitter user who goes by the name of @FarziCricketer tweeted: "Instagram down.. Insta celebs must be feeling nameless for now."
Another @De9011 tweeted: "#instagramdown. Instagram people: Where we should go !! Twitter !! Facebook !!?"
Almost half of the outage reports were related to Instagram s News Feed not working properly while an additional 30 per cent users complained about log-in issues according to The Sun.
18 per cent of users complained that the website was not loading correctly.
Founded in 2010 Instagram was bought by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012.

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