Instagram down

Instagram is having an outage, as many users report messages saying they aren't logged in or feeds that won't load all of their pictures.

The network disruption trackers at Netblocks have noticed Instagram’s “intermittent” issues are happening internationally, but there doesn’t appear to be any wide-scale blocking going on anywhere. The outage doesn’t appear to be tied to any specific area, and other services are still working. In response to inquiry from The Verge, Instagram communications lead Seine Kim said, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Instagram has not confirmed the outage via its social media accounts or via the in-app Instagram status pages. Reports on Downdetector indicate that the issues ...

Bizarrely, some users are being prompted with a “Welcome to Instagram” message as if they are a completely new users. For many of the affected users, the Instagram app is still loading, but the experience is significantly degraded. A number of reports have surfaced on social media from users who are facing problems using Instagram DMs, loading new posts, and viewing and uploading Instagram stories.

Instagram users began reporting many feed issues on May 26, when posts reportedly wouldn't load. Here's what to know about Instagram going down and if it's ...

If it’s not, you might want to try updating the app, logging out and logging back in, or even deleting and re-downloading the app altogether. As of 2:41 p.m. ET, there was no post about the reported issues on the Instagram Comms Twitter account, aka where the company usually addresses app performance issues, so perhaps it wasn’t as widespread as Twitter would make you believe, although the reported issues still hovered at around 2,500 at 2:26 p.m. ET. As of 2:11 p.m. ET, Down Detector’s number of reported issues has decreased to 2,878. As of about 1 p.m. ET, there were a range of different issues plaguing the platform — some people were experiencing a glitch that shows you old posts from weeks ago, while others had trouble scrolling through more than a few posts. Many people (including myself) are seeing posts they already saw and engaged with when they were originally posted. Some users have even reported not seeing feeds at all or being logged out of their account and haven’t been able to get back in, making them think they’ve been hacked.