Instagram is reported to be down for hundreds of users who have taken to alternative social media platforms such as X to complain about the issues they are experiencing
Hundreds of Instagram users say they have been unable to access the social media app.
Downdetector, an outage monitoring service, displayed an uptick in people reporting the service was down after 3pm on Friday. Others have reported login failures and issues loading their feed. Issues have been reported for users in the UK, France as well as Canada.
Some people rushed onto rival social media platforms, including X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook, to ask “is Instagram down?” A user wrote: “Straight to Twitter to see if Instagram is down.” Another tweeted: “Instagram is down right now.”
Downdetector, which monitors outages and problems across various websites and services, showed a rise in reports about Instagram outages this afternoon. According to the website, some parts of the US, Asia and Australia are also experiencing issues.
The main issues mentioned include the Instagram app, login, and server connection. On X, someone added: “Instagram direct messages are down 🙁 !!”
It comes just days after X users were left unable to use the platform due to a series of outage. Hours later, Elon Musk, who owns X, claimed hat the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” He wrote, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …”
Complaints about outages spiked on Monday morning, with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com. By the afternoon, the reports had dropped to the low thousands.
A sustained outage that lasted at least an hour began at noon Eastern time, with the heaviest disruptions occurring along the US coasts. Downdetector.com said that 56 per cent of problems were reported for the X app, while 33 per cent were reported for the website.
In March 2023, the social media platform experienced a bevy of glitches for over an hour as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others. “X outage” was trending on rival social media platform BlueSky, with some posts welcoming users to the site and urging them to stick around.
Musk bought the former Twitter in 2022 and also serves as the CEO of Tesla. He is running X while simultaneously having access to US government data systems – often wearing a shirt that says “tech support.”