Instagram crashing for Android users, netizens bombard Twitter with complaints

Instagram on December 18 crashed for Android users worldwide leaving them in confusion and ranting about the same on Twitter under hashtag #Instagramdown or ‘Instagram down’ and #InstagramCrashing or 'Instagram Crashing'. From asking “what is happening” to tagging the official Twitter account of the photo and video sharing app owned by Facebook, the irked users called for the issue to be rectified as soon as possible. Many netizens even posted the screenshots of the mobile application which has over 11 million downloads on Google Play Store, displaying a message saying “Instagram keeps stopping”. However, as of now, there is not an official response by Instagram.

The internet users flooded the micro-blogging platforms with memes, reactions and general queries after Instagram went down and even Downdetecter, a real-time problem & outage monitoring platform displayed the problems with Instagram spiking slightly after 2:00 PM and is still on the rise.

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YouTube, Gmail And Other Google Services face outage

Instagram crashed just days after YouTube, Gmail, Meet among other popular Google applications as well as services are appearing to face a major outage on December 14. From Gmail showing "Temporary Error (500)" to YouTube being redirected to "something went wrong" page, the Google products crashing has further caused a stir among the internet users who are posting screenshots on social media with captions saying 'Google down'.

Following the confusion among netizens, YouTube India confirmed on Monday that they are "aware" of the issues being faced by its users and said that the company will inform with more information shortly. Meanwhile, Google Drive services including Google Docs and other features collapsed midway leading all users to major inconvenience.

Some users who were indulged in online classes, however, celebrated the incident under hashtag #Googledown and 'YouTube down' with screenshots. Many users even posted about not being able to use Google services. However, Google crashing on December 14 coincides with the reports on the website and server outage tracker, Downdetector. It also evidently states that there is a clear spike in the number of reports on a possible server outage for Google India after 5 PM (local time) on Monday.

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