Instagram down: On the morning of May 18, today, the popular social media platform Instagram became unresponsive for a large number of users. In what appears to be an issue affecting the USA and nearby regions, Instagram users are facing problems logging into the platform, accessing the feed, viewing and posting stories, and more. While the issue affects a larger number of people, as many as 780 people have reported the issue online to DownDetector. The reason behind this outage is not known at the moment, but the platform faced a similar issue in March 2023 when the servers suffered a downtime. The issue is still ongoing, although some users have said they were able to access the app eventually.
Instagram goes down, users left frustrated
Although the issues are widespread and are affecting multiple functionalities of the platform, the majority of the users have said they are struggling with accessing the feed, explore, and Reels page in particular.
It appears that the issue is not a global one and regions in and around the USA have been primarily hit by the outage.
Many users have rushed to Twitter in order to tweet about the issue as well as to post memes and jokes around the situation.