It is not clear what caused the error and the Facebook-owned platform is yet to address the issue officially, although DownDetector shows that the number of people who were reporting issues with the app fell steeply at around 3 pm after errors throughout the morning and against crashed at 5 pm.

Many users are also getting a message from the app, which says “We are sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again.” Currently, it is not clear what exactly is the issue with Instagram. The company hasn’t yet acknowledged the error and confirmed details.

With Instagram down, people also turned to Twitter to check whether they were alone in experiencing these issues or if others were in the same boat. The result - a flood of #InstagramDown memes on the microblogging platform. Take a look at some of the funniest ones below:

https://twitter.com/Rohit_Kumar_21/status/1433379768842416131?s=20