Instagram Is Down! Android Users Flood Twitter With Complaints & Hilarious Memes

Instagram has been facing problems since 4 pm (IST) and many users have complaint of services not being fully restored.

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New Delhi: Several android users on Friday evening faced technical glitch with photo and video sharing social networking platform Instagram as the mobile application reportedly crashed on being launched on smartphones. Several users took to micro-blogging site Twitter and reported the issue using hashtag #Instagramdown. According to a report by website Downdetector.com, the Facebook-owned photo/video sharing app has been facing problems since 4 pm (IST) and many users have complaint of services not being fully restored. Several Instagram users posted a screenshot of the error which shows a warning message - "Instagram has stopped working" - upon scrolling through the news feed or even while opening the app. Here's how Intagram users took to Twitter and reported the issue:

Me thinking what's the problem in my phone#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/lFkmCOJxoK

— Nishant Chauhan (@Nishant__226) December 18, 2020

#instagramdown Twitter which goes down every week to Instagram rn : pic.twitter.com/YLvZIIrRBY

— 🆁🅸🆂🅷🅰🅱🅷 ⍟ (@rishabh_memes) December 18, 2020

#instagramdown #instagram Meanwhile Twitter Addicts: pic.twitter.com/gSE6k7ELXp

— Eternal MOD ❼ (@Shubh4_all) December 18, 2020

#𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 #instagramcrashing Meanwhile chintu from #WhiteHatJr pic.twitter.com/khcXvsR87z

— Prasad Remje (@munna_30_) December 18, 2020

This is a rare problem but after the new update I occur this prblm again and again it automatically closes pls clarify this @instagram #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/i6Dt478pV6

— Mr anoyomous (@RaghavRamesh5) December 18, 2020

Instagram keeps crashing😑 #instagramdown @insta Meanwhile some people to instagram- pic.twitter.com/Mtew7nZ8Cz

— sarcasm__27 (@rahuljoshi144) December 18, 2020

#instagramdown Me Right Now Who Don't Use Instagram - pic.twitter.com/CXtWGULBoR

— Jethalal (@Jethiya_lal) December 18, 2020

#instagramdown and people blaming #WhiteHatJr expert chintu... Le chintu RN : pic.twitter.com/AU3uhg1c4r

— UmderTamker (@jhampakjhum) December 18, 2020

#instagramdown. *People rushing to Twitter, to confirm whether Instagram is really down or not* @VinayChandra01 pic.twitter.com/XwFHJ0TiAu

— Vinay Chandra (@VinayChandra01) December 18, 2020

What's happening to Insta since evening @instagram #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/ShFQuW08II

— Patel Amaan (@Patel_Amaan03) December 18, 2020

Twitter when #facebook and #instagram went down 😂 #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/W30sY5wImf

— kieron Skelton (@kieron_skelton) December 10, 2020

People worrying about Messenger and Instagram down Me who never gets any message and use Instagram only for memes :#FacebookMessengerDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/l6BiIRPXG2

— Sarcastic_jaizz (@Uttam_jaizz_) December 10, 2020

me nd my frnds moving to twt cuz insta is down #Nagloloko #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/3ZYqz6Y3XS

— 𝐥𝐢𝐧.♥ (@taevantie) December 10, 2020

The outage comes days after thousands of Android users across the globe reported error while using YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services on December 14. Gmail users even faced similar crashed on December 15 and 16. Instagram has not officially stated the reason of the crash and the company is yet to make a statement on the tecnical glitch faced by thousands of Android users.