Instagram back after thousands of users in India report outage: Report

Thousands of Instagram users reported issues with the social media application early Friday morning, according to Downdetector.com. Nearly 24,000 users reported issues with the photo-sharing app on the outage-tracking website Downdetector by around 2.30am. Downdetector collates status reports from a number of sources in the United States.

The outage map shows that the issue was reported from across India and about 5,000 Instagram users were affected at the peak of the outage.

“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal and apologize for any inconvenience,” Reuters quoted a Meta spokesperson as saying.