Instagram down

Meta's (formerly known as Facebook) photosharing social media app Instagram suffered an outage that impacted thousands of users globally.

RECOMMENDED The outage lasted for several hours before service was restored, leaving many users frustrated and unable to use the platform during that time. Downdetector gathers outage data by aggregating status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. This was in addition to over 3,000 affected users in the United Kingdom and India. A significant number of Instagram users worldwide experienced difficulties accessing the popular photo-sharing platform late Wednesday.

Meta Platform's Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.More than 46000 users ...

The website collates status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. "Earlier tonight, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing Instagram. As Instagram was coming back online, Downdetector said reports of outages had fallen below 1,000 in the United States.

Instagram app logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on January 23, 2023. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images.

More than 46,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the United States at the peak of the outage, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia. Meta Platform’s Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website

Metas Instagram suffered an unexplained outage where the users experienced server issues and were unable to log in.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). However, memes and jokes provide a way for people to cope with the inconvenience and uncertainty of not being able to access their favourite This event serves as a reminder of how much we rely on technology and the internet in our daily lives and the importance of being prepared for unexpected disruptions. [Musk](/topic/musk)claimed in a post that the issue was the result of a minor adjustment to Twitter's data-access utility. The user commented that they were unable to access the feed and the reels tab would not open. A recent global outage impacted Instagram on Wednesday and users took to Twitter to share memes and jokes about it.

As per the Downdetector outage graph, most of the outages were reported around 7 am (India time). Furthermore, 81% of the users faced issues while using the app ...

Social media platform Instagram was reported to be down for thousands of users on March 9. Instagram was reportedly down for thousands of users on March 9 morning with almost 30,000 users reporting issues in using the platform. More than 30,000 users reported issues in accessing Instagram on Downdetector.com, which checks for outages using multiple sources including user-submitted errors on the platform.

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram says it's resolved “technical issues” that disrupted the photo-sharing service for thousands of users around the world.