Instagram down: massive failure reported worldwide

It’s only just started the month and one of the world’s most used social networks, Instagram, is reporting connection failures around the world.

This Thursday, hundreds of users reported failures trying to use the famous social network, both to reload the feed and to send direct messages to other users, which would be reported by a disproportionate increase in complaints. regarding the service raised on the Down Detector portal. At around 3:30 a.m. Pacific time, more than 4,000 cases were reported on the site concerning the dysfunction of the social network in its desktop and mobile versions.

The errors that were presented were mainly related to loading the feed as it is not possible for new posts to appear and in some cases the app does not display any content. Another problem also appeared in the bin. entering direct messages, as several users complained that they could not send or receive replies while using the service previously.

Such has been the downfall of the website and the app for users in various parts of the world that the #InstagramDown hashtag on Twitter has already become famous, for which people are sharing their mistakes when trying to use the platform, as well as many others. share memes about the situation.

According to the famous RT portal, the main countries affected by the failure of the Instagram platform are Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia and Finland. Although over time new regions started reporting problems such as Spain, India and Argentina.

Although in some places the service has started to function more normally, this is not the case for all affected areas. At present, the functioning of the social network is still expected to normalize, as more and more cases are reported in new places around the world. On the massive failure neither Instagram nor Facebook has commented on it, although they expect them to be actively working to fix the error that is causing the system to fail for so many accounts trying to access the application.

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