If you’re currently having trouble accessing Instagram, you’re not alone. Notifications on the web note issues with Meta’s more-than-just-photos app, with many people seeing screens saying they’re not signed in, blank image posts, “Welcome to Instagram” posts as if they had a brand new account, or feeds that stop loading after the first few photos. Loads of roadside employees see similar issues while trying to access Instagram.
There seems to be no acknowledgment of a problem from Instagram, Facebook or their parent company so far. The outage does not appear to be area-specific and other services are still working.
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We also didn’t see any of the in-app outage status messages for Instagram that it began testing shortly after last year’s massive Facebook network outage, which could alert users to major technical issues affecting the platform or the like. its functions.
We’ve reached out to Instagram and Meta about the issues and will update this post when more information becomes available.
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