Instagram down for users for a few hours worldwide, cause unclear

Users complained about difficulties logging in, uploading photos, and accessing Instagram features

The hearing follows reporting by the Wall Street Journal that Facebook understood the negative effects its photo-sharing app, Instagram, has on young users, including anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, and yet downplayed the research.
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Ajinkya Kawale New Delhi
Meta-owned social networking service Instagram reportedly suffered an outage Thursday morning affecting several users globally, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

At its peak, over 42,000 incidents of disruption were reported by users of the social media platform on Downdetector.com. According to the outage tracking website, over 2,000 users were affected in the UK, while it received over 1,000 reports from India.

While the cause of the disruption of services on Instagram is unclear, the outage lasted for a few hours impacting several users as the social media platform was out of order. Users complained about difficulties logging in, uploading photos, and accessing features of the social media platform.

First Published: Mar 09 2023 | 10:51 AM IST

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