Instagram goes out on new boss' first week on the job

The outage occurred in several cities across the globe.

Zoey Chong Reporter

Zoey is CNET's Asia News Reporter based in Singapore. She prefers variety to monotony and owns an Android mobile device, a Windows PC and Apple's MacBook Pro all at the same time. Outside of the office, she can be found binging on Korean variety shows, if not chilling out with a book at a café recommended by a friend.

See full bio

Zoey Chong

Oct. 3, 2018 2:37 a.m. PT

Instagram application — People are freaking out on Twitter because the 'gram is down.
Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

It's only been a day since Instagram's new boss came on board and the social network has already gone down.

Instagram was out for about an hour today across several cities across the globe. The outage occurred as the Facebook-owned platform saw a new boss come into office this week.

The appointment of Adam Mosseri, former vice president of product at the 'gram, was announced Tuesday. Mosseri is stepping in to fill the void left behind following the departures of co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom.

With the outage going on, users are having a meltdown on Twitter.

Twitter is about to crash with everyone flooding in from Instagram 😂 #instagramdown
— BRENDAN NØRTH (@ImBrendanNorth) October 3, 2018

Every single Instagram model right now trying to log on Instagram #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/Kd7iAnHAKK
— Jesse D Lifson (@jdlifson2184) October 3, 2018

*turns off wifi*
*turns on data*
*turns phone off and on*
*uninstall and install instagram*
*goes on twitter*#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/3du9w9acAA
— Abhishek Raj (@raj_abhishek31) October 3, 2018

Despite reports that Instagram is back up, it seems some users are still experiencing problems at time of writing.

CNET has reached out to Instagram for a comment.