Instagram fell for a few hours and the world "paralyzed" – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Millions of people around the world asked the same question for a few hours: what happened to Instagram?

The popular app had flaws in its service in much of the planet but there was no explanation on the signature. what is happening. The truth is that when you tried to enter the system, you could not.

The image sharing platform has completely failed in the Web version and in desktop browsers.

Many explained that they were looking for a solution by uninstalling it and downloading it again, but the loopholes continued.

When trying to open the page on a desktop, the site only displays the message "5xx server error", a status code that suggests that the server is unable to to execute the request of the user, which in this case indicates that we can not enter the platform.

The error seems to have started around 1:45 pm, affecting all users of the world, according to the map and the comments reported by the Down Detector page. Finally, shortly after 16, the problem was solved.