Instagram back up after global outage affecting thousands

Instagram is back up this morning after suffering global outage affecting thousands of users.

On Thursday, the photo-sharing platform said that the hours-long outage was caused due to a ‘technical issue’ that has since been resolved.

‘Earlier tonight, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved this issue for everyone as quickly as possible,’ Instagram said in a tweet.

Downdetector, which tracks outages, reported more than 53,000 incidents of users unable to access Instagram at the peak of the outage. 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. We resolved this issue for everyone as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. #instagramdown

— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) March 9, 2023

As Instagram was coming back online, Downdetector said reports of outages had fallen below 1,000 in the United States.

Reports of issues came down to less than 100 reports in the UK, India, Japan and Australia, the outage-tracking website showed.

Everyone coming to twitter to confirm instagram is down #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/M88I0cvpvV

— cesar (@jebaiting) March 9, 2023

As always people jumped on Twitter to complain about the issue, with the hashtag #Instagramdown trending.

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