It is some of the fashionable social media apps, however Meta’s Instagram seems to be struggling points.
Instagram began experiencing points simply after 3 pm BST on Friday, based on Outage Report, which screens web site outages.
Customers have flocked to X (Twitter) to share their frustration, with one saying: ‘Oh God not instagram down once more.’
One other posted: Instagram is down each 2 f***ing weeks! It’s getting aggravating now.’
Instagram is experiencing outages worldwide, leaving many customers unable to entry the favored app
Instagram began experiencing points simply after 3pm BST on Friday, based on Outage Report, which screens web site outages
Livid customers have taken to social media to vent their frustrations
In response to Outage Report, Instagram’s providers have primarily been affected for customers within the US, though posts on X recommend the problem is extra widespread.
MailOnline has contacted Meta for remark.
Downdetector, which screens stories of service outages, exhibits a small spike in difficulties accessing the Instagram app.
At 3:53 pm Downdetector reported that there have been 36 situation stories, up from a baseline of solely 9.
This follows a sequence of outages to Meta providers together with Instagram earlier this yr.
Minor service disruptions to Meta’s providers have additionally lately develop into extra frequent.
In response to Cisco Thousand Eyes, there have been 33 cases of ‘efficiency degradation’ between January 1 and April 5, a 154 per cent improve on the identical time interval the yr earlier than.
Downdetector exhibits a small spike in outage stories ranging from 3 pm at this time, as stories hit 3 times their baseline figures
Instagram customers say they’ve been turning to rival social media platforms to substantiate whether or not Instagram is absolutely down
The outage started after 3:00pm at this time with customers reporting points accessing the app
Since January, Meta providers have skilled two of the most important service disruptions since 2022, with customers dropping entry for a number of hours at a time.
On social media, Instagram customers complained that they had been as soon as once more unable to entry Instagram.
‘Already working to twitter to test if everybody’s Instagram is down’, one commenter wrote.
One other added: ‘One other day Instagram is down so everybody heads on to test on X’.
Whereas one livid commenter wrote: ‘THAT DAMN INSTAGRAM DOWN AGAIN’
On X, previously Twitter, social media customers shared their frustration that the service had gone down as soon as once more
Instagram and different Meta providers have already skilled two different main outages this yr
Social media customers flocked to X to test with others whether or not the service had been affected
Many social media customers have additionally taken to X to test whether or not the disruption is affecting others.
‘Is instagram down or am I tripping’, wrote one commenter.
One other requested: ‘Is anybody else Instagram down?’
One commenter even stated that they had been ‘panicking pondering my Instagram was being hacked solely to seek out out insta is down.’
Meta has not but commented on the service disruption so it stays unclear what the trigger could also be.
As MailOnline has beforehand reported, earlier outages have been triggered by ‘self-inflicted’ technical points moderately than malicious assaults.
