An unexpected outage on Instagram causes confusion worldwide. Users are faced with empty feeds, login problems and a puzzling error message.
Thursday afternoon witnessed the widespread social media platform Instagram an unexpected failure. The early signs suggest that this is a widespread problem affecting many of their users worldwide.
Instagram down: reports and confirmations
According to reports from users and confirmations from fault reporting portals such as allestoerungen.de, Instagram suddenly stopped working as usual. Since 2:45 p.m., over 3,000 fault reports have been received on the portal mentioned.
Both are affected mobile app of Instagram as well as the desktop version of the website. Users report various problems, feeds not loading and Stories up to Login problems.
“Something went wrong”: error message and speculation
When trying to access the platform, many users were faced with the error message: “Something went wrong. The page failed to load due to an error.” It is speculated that this could be a server-side issue.
Instagram has not yet made an official statement about the incident. It is unclear how long it will take to resolve the issue and whether there will be data loss or other serious consequences.
In the meantime, many users are looking for alternatives to stay in touch with their followers. It remains to be seen how Instagram will respond to this incident and what measures will be taken to prevent such outages in the future. There are already plenty of memes being posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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