If you are unable to access your Instagram, relax, it is not just you. Instagram has stopped working, with people unable to see people’s pictures or profiles.
Users are instead greeted with empty profiles and a message that the app “cannot refresh feed”.
The web version of the app also has problems. Heading to any page brings up only a “5xx Server Error”.
According to reports by Independent, the problems come amid a difficult time for Instagram. The company’s two founders left in recent days amid rumours that it disagreed with Facebook over how the company should be run.
And after the Facebook hack was revealed over the weekend, it emerged that Instagram users and accounts might also have been caught up in it if they had used their Facebook log-in to create their Instagram account.
It’s not thought that those issues have anything to do with the current outage, which is almost certainly simply a technical fault. Instagram goes down for time-to-time and can send major ripples across the internet since more than a billion people use it each month.
With the popular networking site down users took to Twitter to vent;
Me refreshing my Instagram every 2 seconds to see if it’s working again. #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/ropuVjuHFi
— Jordan Coombe (@Jordan_Coombe) October 3, 2018
People really on twitter just to talk about Instagram being down 😂
— Don Benjamin (@ItsDonBenjamin) October 3, 2018
That moment when Instagram is down so u check in on Twitter 👋🏽
— Terrence J (@TerrenceJ) October 3, 2018
Instagram is down! Chill lang!
Your identity is not your instagram account.— HeyMRHupa (@HeyMrHUPA) October 3, 2018
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