Instagram down: On the morning of March 9, today, the popular social media platform Instagram went down for a large number of users. In what appears to be a global outage, Instagram users are suffering issues in logging into the platform, accessing the feed, opening DMs and in other areas. As per reports, as many as 30,000 people have been affected by this issue. The reason behind this outage is not known at the moment, but the platform faced a similar issue in July 2022 when the servers suffered a downtime. The issue is still ongoing, although some users have said they were able to access the app eventually.
According to DownDetector, an independent outage monitoring website, the first spike began at around 7 AM in the morning and the reports peaked at around 8:30 AM. Among the issues faced by users, 54 percent claimed issues in connecting with the server, 32 percent said they faced problems while using the app and 14 percent were not able to log in.
Instagram down, outage frustrates users
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