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Instagram Outage Triggers More Than 10,000 Reports, Hitting Website Hardest

Crowdsourced monitoring highlighted a developing disruption, with no immediate comment from Meta.

Overview

  • Downdetector logged over 10,000 outage reports by about 8:30 p.m. ET after counts topped 7,500 earlier in the evening.
  • Reports indicated the website experienced most of the problems, with fewer issues on the mobile app and logins.
  • User screenshots shared on social platforms showed a standard error message stating, “Sorry, something went wrong.”
  • Newsrooms said they had requested comment from Instagram and Meta, and no formal confirmation of the issue had been issued.
  • Coverage noted complaints peaked for roughly an hour in the U.S. evening before easing, with some reports suggesting service improvement.