Multiple users have complained that they cannot see videos and stories on the platform. Neither Instagram nor its parent company, Meta, has made any official statement on the issue.
Posted Date – 12:19 PM, Fri – 09/06/23
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Hyderabad: Users around the world reported that Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram was not working on Friday. The app displays error messages to users such as “Sorry, unable to refresh the feed” and “Something went wrong.”
According to Downdetector.com, there are thousands of user-generated outage reports. A map by the well-known internet outage tracker shows that it affected users in multiple countries.
Multiple users have complained that they cannot see videos and stories on the platform. Neither Instagram nor its parent company, Meta, has made any official statement on the issue.
That said, in a classic event where people checked Twitter to see if the outage was common, soon #instagramdown started trending on the platform, sparking a meme fest.
“Instagram shuts down every 3 days and I’m so tired,” wrote one user. “#Instagram is down in all countries since last night. Due to this, the page itself is not loading on the desktop, (sic)” Another user shared a screen of the Instagram web app with an error message screenshot.
Instagram is down again?
Story video and music not loading? ?#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/Nsauvw9bDX— ᴹ ᴼ ᴼ ᴺ ♡ ˎˊ (@ishh_spamzz) June 9, 2023
I thought my account was hacked causing instagram to crash again 🤦🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/GG0y0OYm3m
— Jay-Wuan© (@jaywuan) June 9, 2023
Everyone go to Twitter to check if Instagram is down #instagramdown #instagram #metaverse pic.twitter.com/zd9jmjHTm1
— Invincible Numbers (@id3solution) June 9, 2023
