Instagram down in mass power outage

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Breakfasts everywhere went undocumented on social media Saturday morning because photo-sharing site Instagram is still down after a line of powerful storms caused mass power outages across the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard on Friday night.

Fierce thunderstorms and high winds, some topping 80 miles per hour, whipped across Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Washington and Virginia, leaving debris, hot temperatures and no power to combat the record-breaking heat.

In addition to Instagram, Mashable and Forbes reported that on Friday night Netflix and Pinterest, powered by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, also were down because of weather affecting the region. The majority of those accounts, and the sites themselves, appear to be up and running again.

However, on Saturday morning, people were still taking to Twitter and Facebook, complaining or poking fun at the impact of Instagram, based in northern Virginia, going dark.

Some tweets encouraged people to enjoy the blackout by leaving technology behind for the weekend, that it's OK to eat breakfast and drink coffee without sharing a photo of it with the rest of the world via social media. Other tweets joked that many people would go undocumented on Facebook or Twitter as long as Instagram was down because of the site's various photo-enhancing filters.

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Edited June 30, 2012 by SHoTTa35
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[Growled Member]

Oh the horror of it all.

[neufuse Veteran]

ooook, so what happened to all the continious power backups these places have? and all the backup connections that are supose to get around issues with 3rd party power outages? heck the data center we have even has satalite backups just incase their 5 main data lines go down, and just added LTE backups ontop of that...

[Raa]

Breakfasts everywhere went undocumented on social media Saturday morning

The best part of the article! :laugh:

[DrJohnSmitherson]

Yay cloud

[remixedcat]

And that state was declard a state of emergency ..

Samw w my st. Wv...power. is still out in my area...I gotta go to Lowe's to use wifi and charge my phone..

.my work is in roanoke and their site and work server is down...

[remixedcat]

Also gas is very scarce.. 3 hr lines to get gas...prolly had issues getting it for generators.. even desil is scarce..

I know they have contracts for fuel however hospitals have priority ..

[Elliott]

Yea, this is a pretty bad situation. Lots of people without power and we're getting really high temps in the area.

[remixedcat]

Summer officially sucks

[threetonesun]

The take away from this article is that if you're a reasonably smart young person, you should probably develop a way to improve our national power grid, not a new web-app.

[Growled Member]

Summer officially sucks

Now all we need is for Neowin to go down

[bjoswald]

Oh no... no more black and white photos of lawnchairs and cats from "professional" photographers. :rolleyes:

[xendrome]

Oh no... no more black and white photos of lawnchairs and cats from "professional" photographers. :rolleyes:

Thank jesus, I was just about to say this.. I am so tired of seeing perfectly good pictures with some horrible instagram filter applied to them, then shrunk down to 640x480...

[nominak]

Oh good, no sepia toned pictures for a day.. yay

[Charisma Veteran]

So many bad things happening because of this, and people are complaining about Instagram. haha.

We have two remote sites hard down, one in a "state of emergency" area... I'm more concerned about the people without air conditioning, this heat (100-110F, 37-43C) is enough to kill, especially older folks who are stuck in their homes. Lot of heatstrokes, dehydration, etc adding to the pressure hospitals are under.

...and now nobody can even take bad photos of the damage, "improve" it with fake tilt-shift effects, and post it all over Facebook.

[pmrd]

Lol **** Instagram. It's photoshop for annoying people