Instagram went down because of JUSTIN BIBER !!
Instagram's app has been down or suffering extremely long loading times for some over the last 50 minutes. Many suspect the reason is that Justin bieber posted a photo of his ex-girl friend Selena Gomez at an Oscar party to his 14 million followers. The post sent his fandom into a frenzy of rumours that they might get back together,which may have caused an outage-inducing traffic spike.
His fans are so loyal and engaged,they create unpredictable floods of attention that can cripple web services. In that way,it's a kind of compliment. Note that Bieber contributing to the instagram issues is still unconfirmed speculation.
Instagram confirms outage affected some users,but said it didn't appear that Bieber was responsible. No other reason was given, though, and I suspect the company wouldn't want to publicly blame the pop star.
An instagram spokesperson said" As much as we hope for a blissful reunion between two of American's sweethearts , we have no reason to believe that Justin's recent instagram post caused the site to slow down this morning. However,a small number of people were effected and we apologize for the inconvenience.
The outage comes just a week after Facebook's other big acquisition Whatsapp experienced multiple hours of down of downtime caused by "server issues". There's been no official announcement posted by instagram's blog, Facebook or Twitter today, through.
However,people began tweeting "Is instagram Down?" starting around 7.54 am PST. Some users said they said they were getting service back around 8.15 am but others continue report they can't upload or load their feed.
If Bieber was in part responsible , it would highlight just much sway big public figures have over web traffic. Once upon a time,it was record labels and movie studios that could say "Hey kid, want to be famous?" But now, social platforms can allow anyone with powerful content,even if it only appeals to a certain demographic ,to gain tens of millions of followers and impact the internet landscape.
His fans are so loyal and engaged,they create unpredictable floods of attention that can cripple web services. In that way,it's a kind of compliment. Note that Bieber contributing to the instagram issues is still unconfirmed speculation.
An instagram spokesperson said" As much as we hope for a blissful reunion between two of American's sweethearts , we have no reason to believe that Justin's recent instagram post caused the site to slow down this morning. However,a small number of people were effected and we apologize for the inconvenience.
The outage comes just a week after Facebook's other big acquisition Whatsapp experienced multiple hours of down of downtime caused by "server issues". There's been no official announcement posted by instagram's blog, Facebook or Twitter today, through.
However,people began tweeting "Is instagram Down?" starting around 7.54 am PST. Some users said they said they were getting service back around 8.15 am but others continue report they can't upload or load their feed.
If Bieber was in part responsible , it would highlight just much sway big public figures have over web traffic. Once upon a time,it was record labels and movie studios that could say "Hey kid, want to be famous?" But now, social platforms can allow anyone with powerful content,even if it only appeals to a certain demographic ,to gain tens of millions of followers and impact the internet landscape.
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