San Francisco: Popular photo sharing media platform, Instagram, went down today with users around the world sharing their disappointment over the issue on twitter with #instagramdown.

Instagram users on the website are complaining with an ongoing outage. Downdetector.in has recorded a significant increase in complaints, with over 600 instances reported. Based on the outage graph on the website, the problems started occurring after 9 AM.

When attempting to load the Instagram website, users are encountering an error message stating, "Something went wrong." The message further informs them that there is an issue preventing the page from loading properly.

Twitter flooded with memes

Users who encountered difficulties accessing Instagram turned to Twitter, to express their displeasure.

Twitter served as a platform where netizens shared their encounters and expressed their frustrations regarding the service disruption.

The hashtag #instagramdown gained traction as users conveyed their worries and dissatisfaction with yet another interruption on the popular photo-sharing platform.

Check the memes circulating on Twitter on the Instagram outage:


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Bengaluru (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday exhorted people to vote, saying they should exercise their democratic right despite the soaring mercury.

The Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka cast her ballot at a polling booth in Jayanagar coming under Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency.

Voting was underway on Friday in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the State in the first phase.

“Everyone should come out of their homes and cast their vote. Yes, it can be a hot day for Bengaluru but it is worth coming out. Choose your time, please come and do vote," Sitharaman told reporters.

Many booths reported brisk voting in the first hour of polling as people sought to "beat the heat"

Polling began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm.

A total of 247 candidates -- 226 men and 21 women -- are in the fray for the first phase in 14 segments covering most of the southern and coastal districts, where more than 2.88 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in 30,602 polling stations.

The 14 segments facing polls in the first phase are: Udupi-Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkballapur and Kolar.

There are a total of 2,88,19,342 electors in these constituencies — 1,44,28,099 male, 1,43,88,176 female and 3,067 third gender