Earlier today, Instagram experienced a massive global outage. About 46,000 people in the United States and over 3,000 people from other regions were misled into thinking that their accounts had been deleted or hacked, according to the outage monitoring website Downdetector.
As per blackout observing site Downdetector.com, Meta Stage’s Instagram was down for many clients around the world.

According to Downdetector, which monitors outages by compiling status reports from a variety of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, more than 46,000 users in the United States reported problems accessing the photo-sharing platform at the height of the outage.

Additionally, earlier today, Downdetector displayed approximately 2000 additional affected users from the United Kingdom and over 1,000 reports from India and Australia, respectively.
What did not work?
While pinpointing the specific second when things started to turn out badly is troublesome, according to Downdetector, Instagram has been down for somewhat more than an hour as of the time this story went live, with the underlying grumbling coming in around 5PM PST. Since then, there has been a significant increase in the number of reports.

Despite their current state, both the app and website are loading the home stream, as previously mentioned. The Explore page, on the other hand, appears to be completely down.

It appears that refreshing takes a long time or has a tendency to time out, in addition to the app and website outages. Other significant services, most notably Twitter, have also encountered issues this month, though its duration is unknown.

The website went down a few days ago, severely disrupting Twitter’s service, which experiences frequent outages. Twitter Support made it clear that a change to some back-end components was to blame for the issue, which led to the service being restored in the end.

Naturally, each platform’s circumstances are unique, with some disruptions lasting only a few seconds and others hours. Instagram, which is used by a lot of people for both entertainment and work, ought to have a shorter recovery period.