Instagram, Facebook Messenger Down: Users Report Issues In Sending Messages, Flood Twitter With Memes

Instagram Facebook Messenger Down: Downdetector shows severe outage reported by Instagram users.

Instagram users are reporting issues with messaging. ( Image Source :Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash )

Instagram and Facebook Messenger appear to be down for several users, who are experiencing trouble while sending messages on both the Meta-owned platforms. As per website services status tracker Downdetector, Instagram is showing heavy outages, starting from around 8pm on July 5, continuing to Wednesday morning. Several users have taken to Twitter to share their frustration in trying to send DMs to their contacts on both platforms. There has been no official communication from Meta regarding the recent outage as of yet.

On July 5, Downdetector showed a peak in Instagram outage reports from users, with over 1,280 users flagging issues with the photo- and video-sharing service at around 11:17pm. While the outage reports dipped early morning on July 6, at around 3:17am, they peaked again at around 10:17am. At the time of writing, Downdetector shows 1,150 reports on the Instagram outage. Facebook Messenger, on the other hand, also showed signs of outage late on Tuesday.

It should be noted that so far, the issue appears to be only restricted to the platforms' messaging features, as all the other features of the apps seem to be working fine, ABP Live could verify independently. Given the fact that both Instagram and Facebook Messenger are owned by Meta (formerly known as Facebook), it could be possible that the messaging issue on both Instagram and Facebook Messenger should be resolved at the same time. As mentioned, there has been no official communication from Meta on the current outage.

Users have taken to Twitter to share their frustration with memes and posts.

Here are a few hilarious reactions from users on the recent Instagram outage:

me waking up every 5 mins to see if Instagram is working… #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/O7eXeBIsOx

— rehanmukhtarx19 (@rehanmukhtarx19) July 6, 2022

All of us coming to twitter to confirm instagram is down
And my Instagram DMS still not working 🙄🙄
#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/kM0CDZ360e

— 🎀𝑭𝒂𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒂🎀 (@iamfarhana21) July 6, 2022

People coming on Twitter after instagram DM goes down. 😂 pic.twitter.com/1yhlaa4Ubu

— Log kya sochenge (@_Logkyasochenge) July 6, 2022

footage me fixing instagram cause nobody else is.
#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/LQR1UVpDYW

— hot for the green mnm (@jdigglydawg) July 5, 2022

*literally everyone's melting down over #instagramdown*
meanwhile the instagram board: pic.twitter.com/SD8zbvCM5M

— Mly Ismail 🇲🇦🥊 (@mlyismail_) July 6, 2022

#instagramdown

When u just woke up and realise that instagram dm is still down🤦 pic.twitter.com/wSaJP0Rw65

— @SARD™ (@MsDians071) July 6, 2022

Me to Instagram after refreshing my phone 3 times and reinstalling Instagram 2 times.#instadown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/SIiZ2EsgBB

— Sarah (@sarahzafarrr) July 5, 2022