Instagram back for users after massive global outage

Instagram is back and working again after facing a global outage on Thursday morning. Thousands of Instagram users were facing issues while accessing the platform on March 9. On the online outage monitor website Downdetector, users started reporting the issue earlier in the morning, which peaked at more than 62,000.

As per the website, 10% of users had reported problems while using the website, 3% while logging in and 87% while using the app on their smartphone. Instagram on Thursday said that it has fixed the "technical issue" because of which users were facing trouble accessing the platform.

The company tweeted from its @InstagramComms account: "A technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved this issue for everyone as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience."

Taking to Twitter, several users reported the issue.

While one user said, "Is Instagram down or is my internet just trash?" another asked, "Am I the only one who Instagram down? Reels and explore page aren't loading".

In October last year, Instagram had faced an outage which told users that their account was suspended.

Later, the company had tweeted: "We've resolved this bug now -- it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in the number of followers. Sorry." (with inputs from IANS)