Breakfasts everywhere went undocumented on social media Saturday morning as a result of photo-sharing web site Instagram remains down when a line of powerful storms caused mass power outages across the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard on Friday night.
In addition to Instagram, Mashable and Forbes reported that on Friday night Netflix and Pinterest, powered by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, conjointly were down thanks to weather affecting the region. the bulk of these accounts, and also the sites themselves, seem to be up and running once more.
Fierce thunderstorms and high winds, some topping eighty 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.
However, on Saturday morning, folks were still taking to Twitter and Facebook, complaining or poking fun at the impact of Instagram, based mostly in northern Virginia, going dark.
Some tweets inspired folks to fancy the blackout by leaving technology behind for the weekend, that it's okay to eat breakfast and drink low while not sharing a photograph of it with the remainder of the globe via social media. alternative tweets joked that several folks would go undocumented on Facebook or Twitter as long as Instagram was down thanks to the site's varied photo-enhancing filters.
A similar conversation ensued when Twitter experienced a widespread outage on June 21; it’s largest since October 2011.