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    Instagram suffers another outage, angry users say they want to 'throw away' the app

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    Instagram has not yet addressed this outage.

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    Now that the outages are becoming more frequent, its raising concerns amongst people who seem to be considering quitting Instagram.
    Photo-messaging app Instagram has suffered yet another outage, and this one has angered users to an extent where they wish to 'throw away' the app.

    According to outage reviewing and monitoring website DownDetector's report on Tuesday, the Facebook-owned app was struck by an outage just past 10 a.m. PT. It is said to have affected users in the US, UK and across Europe.

    Fed up with repeated outages, users took to Twitter and reported Instagram's crash, expressing their frustration.

    Soon, the hashtag #InstagramDown started trending on Twitter. Users expressed anger on th micro-blogging platform citing repeated instances of the same thing.









    Now that the outages are becoming more frequent, its raising concerns amongst people who seem to be considering quitting the app.

    However, unlike usually, Instagram has not yet addressed this outage.

    Managing a global user-base of over 2.38 billion people, Facebook and its family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, have collectively suffered five major outages in the last four months. Out of all the Facebook's apps, Instagram has experienced downtime the most.



    (With inputs from IANS)
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