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Instagram seems to be inactive for many users around the world. The problem appears to be unevenly distributed, and it works for some users and not for others. The week of downtime continues with a more high-profile outage, with Instagram users turning to Twitter and other social platforms to complain about the outages. The #Instagramdown hashtag is now trending on Twitter, with several Android users telling us that their app has crashed, although others have confirmed that it still works fine.
Instagram’s official identifier on Twitter hasn’t posted anything about the outage so far, but the trending hashtag makes it clear that this is a widespread problem. According to website status trackers at DownDetector, Instagram problems started accelerating around 5pm on Friday, and appear to have peaked around 8pm.
Instagram and other Facebook products like WhatsApp and Messenger, along with Facebook, also dropped a bit earlier this month. In that outage, downtime was largely reported across most of Europe, though it grew and impacted other regions as well.
The image-sharing social network joins several popular platforms that have faced outages this week. We saw a major outage from Google at the beginning of the week, and Netflix was also offline on Thursday. Instant messaging platform Telegram faced an outage on Thursday, and Facebook-owned Instagram joined this growing list on Friday.
Instagram seems to have started having problems from around 2pm on Friday
Photo Credit: Screenshot / DownDetector
It’s unclear if there are any common threads to these outages: Google’s outage on Monday was linked to a problem with the company’s automated quota management system, according to the company. The resulting outage removed all popular Google services, including Google Docs, YouTube, and Gmail. The other companies have not released details on what caused the problems on their platforms, until now.
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