Facebook started off the week with one heck of a blunder, watching all of its services go down worldwide for over 6 hours. Now to close out the week, there’s another large-scale outage affecting Instagram in particular. People started to notice issues with Instagram not loading or refreshing around 3 p.m. ET, and the problems seem to be sporadic — but there are enough reports out there now that we can say there’s a large-scale problem afoot.
We’re also seeing reports of problems with Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp — though on a much smaller scale that has us thinking the issue is particularly focused on Instagram. Heading over to Twitter, everyone’s favorite place to complain, both #instagramdownagain and #instadown are trending.
So far, Instagram hasn’t made any public acknowledgement of the outage.
This is a developing story
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