Instagram is DOWN: Users worldwide hit with outage plaguing the app
It’s one of the most popular social media apps, but Meta‘s Instagram appears to be suffering issues.
Instagram started experiencing issues just after 3 pm BST on Friday, according to Outage Report, which monitors site outages.
Users have flocked to X (Twitter) to share their frustration, with one saying: ‘Oh God not instagram down again.’
Another posted: Instagram is down every 2 f***ing weeks! It’s getting aggravating now.’
Instagram is experiencing outages worldwide, leaving many users unable to access the popular app
Instagram started experiencing issues just after 3pm BST on Friday, according to Outage Report, which monitors site outages
Furious users have taken to social media to vent their frustrations
According to Outage Report, Instagram’s services have mainly been affected for users in the US, although posts on X suggest the issue is more widespread.
MailOnline has contacted Meta for comment.
Downdetector, which monitors reports of service outages, shows a small spike in difficulties accessing the Instagram app.
At 3:53 pm Downdetector reported that there were 36 issue reports, up from a baseline of only nine.
This follows a series of outages to Meta services including Instagram earlier this year.
Minor service disruptions to Meta’s services have also recently become more common.
According to Cisco Thousand Eyes, there have been 33 instances of ‘performance degradation’ between January 1 and April 5, a 154 per cent increase on the same time period the year before.
Downdetector shows a small spike in outage reports starting from 3 pm today, as reports hit three times their baseline figures
Instagram users say they have been turning to rival social media platforms to confirm whether Instagram is really down
The outage began after 3:00pm today with users reporting issues accessing the app
Since January, Meta services have experienced two of the largest service disruptions since 2022, with users losing access for several hours at a time.
On social media, Instagram users complained that they were once again unable to access Instagram.
‘Already running to twitter to check if everyone’s Instagram is down’, one commenter wrote.
Another added: ‘Another day Instagram is down so everyone heads on to check on X’.
While one furious commenter wrote: ‘THAT DAMN INSTAGRAM DOWN AGAIN’
On X, formerly Twitter, social media users shared their frustration that the service had gone down once again
Instagram and other Meta services have already experienced two other major outages this year
Social media users flocked to X to check with others whether the service had been affected
Many social media users have also taken to X to check whether the disruption is affecting others.
‘Is instagram down or am I tripping’, wrote one commenter.
Another asked: ‘Is anyone else Instagram down?’
One commenter even said that they were ‘panicking thinking my Instagram was being hacked only to find out insta is down.’
Meta has not yet commented on the service disruption so it remains unclear what the cause may be.
As MailOnline has previously reported, earlier outages have been triggered by ‘self-inflicted’ technical issues rather than malicious attacks.
