Netflix and Instagram knocked out by powerful east coast storm

NEW YORK — Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest are using Twitter and Facebook to update subscribers after violent storms across the eastern U.S. caused server outages for hours.

Netflix and Pinterest restored service by Saturday afternoon.

Instagram used its Facebook fan page to communicate with users of its photo-sharing service. It posted a message on Saturday morning that blamed the electrical storm for the outage and explained that its engineers were working to restore service.

Still, many Instagram’s users were searching for answers. “Instagram” was the top search term on Google on Saturday, according to Google Trends.

Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram are customers of Amazon Inc.’s web services division. The unit provides web services and data storage facilities that are commonly used for “cloud computing”.

Amazon spokeswoman Kay Kinton told The Associated Press in an email that the storm cut power to some of company’s operations. 

Service has been restored for most customers, Kinton said.

Netflix, a video streaming service, said on Twitter that subscribers should reconnect if they still experienced problems.

The online scrapbook service Pinterest says employees are working to fix remaining issues that may affect performance.

The Friday evening storms knocked out power for millions of people.

Diffrent pictures from these toradoes in Kansas city MO

As we pray out way throgh these days ...these storms pass over us . Some more violent then others . Here are some of the pics from the city. A picture is worth a thousand words. Joplin mo was hit the other day 14 fatalities  - today it was Oklahoma and Sedalia mo ...and some guy was in a truck headed to work on the highway and he seen a big dark cloud and decided to keep driving and the cloud turned into a tornado on top of his truck and picked his truck up and turned it on its nose--the landscaper who usauly pays very close attention to the weather for the sake of his buisness said that it seemed like seconds and it happen so fast but a state trooper witnessed it all and said it seemed to take forever and the tornado picked up the truck and tossed it aroundlike a peice of paper- the landscaper survived with minor cuts and bruises ,