{"id":34499,"date":"2020-09-18T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=34499"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:32:28","slug":"instagram-users-experienced-an-app-blackout-on-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/announcements\/instagram-users-experienced-an-app-blackout-on-thursday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Peeps Went Into Panic Mode As Instagram Users Experienced A Complete App Blackout On Thursday Evening\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dubai Peeps Went Into Panic Mode As Instagram Users Experienced A Complete App Blackout On Thursday Evening\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not just talking about myself here, but legit the good folks of Dubai (and people from ALL over the world) went into a complete PANIC mode seeing Instagram down for a solid 30 minutes last night. The social media application showed errors in loading, kept stalling, some experienced a complete blackout while others had their profiles taken down&#8230; overall Instagram was just NOT having it on Thursday night (September 17).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, affecting Instagram insights and statistics as the numbers were under-reported. So if you chose last night to upload a pic or story, then chances are that it might not have performed up to its usual mark.<\/p>\n<p>So well&#8230; now you know, it wasn&#8217;t you or your internet provider, it was the app itself acting up.<\/p>\n<p>Users also reported facing trouble when trying to log in or navigate through Facebook as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--infeed--><\/p>\n<h2>The two popular social media platforms, however, were quick to bounce back from their temporary outage on Thursday evening<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Instagram is DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are experiencing an outage. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/instagram?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/instagramdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#instagramdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u062d\u0633\u0646 \u0633\u062c\u0648\u0627\u0646\u064a \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HSajwanization\/status\/1306662606023917568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Many users faced issues with Facebook&#8217;s family of apps due to a network configuration change and algorithm updates<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whoa, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Facebook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Facebook<\/a>&#8216;s Business Manager platform is down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKVMiC2huu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CKVMiC2huu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elusive Michigan Voter (@derekdevries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekdevries\/status\/1306659157668433920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Let it be known, Twitter is your best friend when IG or Facebook face blackouts!<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">so what we gon do while instagram not working? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/instagramdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#instagramdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/exmwcoFiPz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/exmwcoFiPz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ig: jamorihatesyou (@jamorihatesyou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamorihatesyou\/status\/1306662176879513600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Hundreds of people flocked to Twittaahh to share their frustration over the American media sharing social networking service being down like a plummet<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ITS SO FRUSTRATING. I hope you get your account back \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marianiki (@marianikimisyri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianikimisyri\/status\/1306794580881354752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/18102511\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-09-18-at-10.24.20-AM.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubai Peeps Went Into Panic Mode As Instagram Users Experienced A Complete App Blackout On Thursday Evening\u00a0 Not just talking about myself here, but legit the good folks of Dubai (and people from ALL over the world) went into a complete PANIC mode seeing Instagram down for a solid 30 minutes last night. 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