Instagram DOWN as thousands of users worldwide report issues viewing posts & loading app
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INSTAGRAM has gone down with users across the globe reporting issues.
Thousands of users have reported that they are experiencing problems on the popular Meta-owned app.
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Instagram users across the globe are reporting problems with the app
Common problems include viewing posts and comments on public pages or people users follow.
Others are also facing larger issues loading the app as it keeps crashing.
Over 2,000 reports of problems on Insta have been flagged at the time of writing, according to downdetector.
The outage tracking website saw a spike in the number of reports today just after 4pm in the UK.
Some users in both the UK and US also encountered other technical problems while using the meta-owned app.
A number of users reported not being able to see pages of their followers.
It saw a huge number of social media users taking to X, formerly Twitter, to share their problems using Insta.
One said: "Will forever run to X whenever Instagram is down to check if it's just me or the whole world's collapsing."
Another wrote: "I was in people instagram pages thinking they blocked me but whole time instagram was down."
A third commented: "Only here to see if I'm the only one with Instagram problems."
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