On Tuesday night time, Instagram users were dejected to see that Instagram was down for 7 hours. The specific reason for its crashing was not revealed by their technical team until today morning. And the reason is as shocking as it can get. Instagram got crashed due to an Instagram user from Mumbai, using 174 hashtags in his post. Yes, 174 hashtags within a post!
The name of the guy is Salim Hashmi or as he likes to call himself Salim #me. We interviewed the man about his stint and he said, “See, that had not been my fault. Many Instagram users use many hashtags. In fact, Instagram runs because of it. Just like Ranveer Singh’s body runs on hash, Instagram works on hashtags. Putting 100 tags in a post is fairly common for me. I have 1784 posts on Instagram till today. No sorry.. 1785 articles.”
We realized he had clicked a picture of our interviewer and posted it in Instagram with the caption ‘Getting interviewed guyzz. Having funnn’ and used 94 hashtags for it, all of this within a minute. We continued to interview him.
He added, “Just because someone is overusing a feature that is freely available doesn’t mean that the app should crash. It’s Zuckerberg’s fault.” In the meantime, he again posted a photo on Instagram without us realizing it.
When asked what the fault of various other users was to deserve this, he stated, “Do you think I don’t care about other users? My own brother is so much addicted to Instagram that he adores biryani pics on Instagram more than the actual biryani. When Instagram crashed, he..” he handles his tears “he didn’t eat anything that evening because he couldn’t see the foodgasm and foodporn hashtag. Even my family was affected by it, so don’t blame me because I didn’t do it intentionally,” while he posts 2 more posts taking the post count to 1788.
We asked him not to click further selfies in our office, to which he fumed and replied, “This is a free India. And instagram is definitely a free media. I will click and post wherever I wish to. And I'll use as many hashtags as I would like to. I will use them while speaking too. Here.. #mahlyf #mahrulezz #instapic #instagood #L4L #f4f #igers #picoftheday #foodporn #foodgasm #angry #picstar #attitude #swag #mdhmasala #chunkypandey.” We had to escort him out of the office.