‘Instagram down’: Users worldwide complain after accounts get suspended, platform says 'looking into it'

Realtime online outage tracker DownDetector showed a surge in issues reported in the past hour, with maximum users facing a problem with their account login.

Instagram users across the globe on Monday faced a login error after many of them got a message saying ‘We suspended your account’. In a tweet, Instagram's communications team clarified, “We're aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account. We're looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience.”

Instagram down: Users across the world complained after their accounts were suspended in an apparent outage.

Many users took to Twitter after the Meta-owned social media platform "suspended" their accounts.

“@instagram what is going on? My account literally got suspended for no reason I did not violate any community guidelines, and when I try to verify the code it's just giving me a loading error. Is anybody else having this problem,” wrote a user.

Realtime online outage tracker DownDetector showed a surge in issues reported in the past hour, with maximum users facing a problem with their account login. Nearly 7,000 users of Instagram were impacted, the tracker showed.

This comes days after WhatsApp – another social media platform owned by Meta – suffered a massive outage.