Instagram outage in US nearly resolved as reports drop, Downdetector shows

Reports of an Instagram outage in the US on Thursday evening dropped significantly.

Published on: Mar 21, 2025, 07:20:38 IST

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Reports of an Instagram outage in the U.S. on Thursday evening dropped significantly, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, indicating that the issue has largely been resolved for many users.

A logo of mobile application Instagram is seen on a mobile phone, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. (Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

As of 8:34 p.m. ET, there were only 429 incidents reported, down from 19,431 earlier, according to the website that tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources.

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Instagram owner Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports, so the actual number of affected users may differ.

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