Instagram down for thousands of users: Downdetector

Hundreds of Instagram users have reported issues with server connection, according to Downdetector.

Published on: Mar 9, 2023, 07:42:56 IST

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Instagram services were down for thousands of users on Thursday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Instagram logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

The outage graph on downdetector showed a spike in reports around 7am. While over 50% of the reported outage were regarding server connection, 20% were about login issue.

Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.

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