Is Instagram Down? Some users have reported that the service appears to be experiencing technical difficulties, including connection issues.
We reached out to Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to ask about the apparent outage. In response, a company spokesperson told us, “We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience. »
We found several tweets on Twitter that confirmed Instagram is down for at least a few users (at the time of this writing), some of which mentioned connection errors. These errors seemed likely related to a partial service outage, not hijackers or suspensions:
The Down Detector website, which tracks outages of various services, also showed a large number of users reporting login errors and that Instagram was at least partially down.
A look for from @instagram on Twitter, sorted by latest tweets, showed that scammers are taking advantage of the outage.
Readers should beware of users who advise contacting a specific account that can supposedly help fix login errors. It appears to be nothing more than a way to compromise an account.
This story will be updated if we receive more details.