Instagram, the Meta-owned photo-sharing platform, appears to be down for users across the globe. The outage occurred as the service officially launched its latest messaging platform Threads — touted as the newest rival to Twitter — on Thursday. Users took to Twitter to express their dissatisfaction at the sudden outage. Instagram Comms, the service's official PR account on Twitter, is yet to share an official statement on the outage at the time of writing.
As per status tracker Downdetector, users in India started reporting cases of outage at around 9pm IST, with cases peaking at around 11pm (screenshot below). As per Downdetector's Instagram outage and reported problems map (screenshot below), outage issues appeared to be mostly reported from cities such as Bengaluru, Delhi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. As per user reports on social media, users are unable to view photos or profile photos on the app.
Downdetector also showed that the recent outage appears to be hitting Instagram users across the globe, including countries like Australia, Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US.
The latest outage notably occurred just hours ahead of the rollout of Instagram's Twitter rival, Threads, which is officially set to roll out to Indian users today (July 6).
ABP Live has reached out to Instagram for a statement on the latest outage. This report will be updated when we hear back.
Disgruntled users have taken to Twitter to express their discontentment with Instagram's latest outage. Check out some reactions below:
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