Soon after the error came into light, users took to social media to complaint about the issue. User started posting memes and jokes on the micro-blogging site as it went down. DownDetector’s live outage map showed that parts of North America, Europe, Australia, India, Singapore and other countries were facing issues with the service. The global outage comes after Instagram announced on Monday that long-term insider Adam Mosseri will take over as the new head of the photo-sharing app, a week after its co-founders resigned.
The app has more than one billion active monthly users and has grown by adding features such as messaging and short videos. Soon after the app went down, people started speculating hack threats as its parent company Facebook recently became a victim of data breach. However, nothing as such has been reported or said by the company officials.
The company has on Monday appointed Instagram product head and former high-ranking executive of Facebook Adam Mosseri as the ‘new boss’ of Instagram. Mosseri was replaced by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger who abruptly parted ways with the company following a brawl last month.