Instagram Reportedly Down Worldwide

Instagram crashed late Thursday around the globe as a number of users started to report issues with the social network.

Around 3 p.m. CT, people worldwide started reporting #InstagramDown on Twitter, highlighting loading issues and session restarts that forced users off the website.

Over 24,000 users submitted reports of their app failing according to downdetector.com. Users in many countries, including Egypt and Pakistan, could not access the platform, according to Down Detector.

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According to data gathered by the tracker, 73% of outages were reported by Instagram app users, followed by logging-in issues for 23% of users and issues with uploading videos and photos for 4% of users.

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On the same day, Twitter’s services went back to work after the platform went down for around 40 minutes in a major outage for the social network.

Issues started with the service at around 8:05 AM ET, with many users reporting “over capacity” error messages that said, “this page is down.” The problems affected Twitter web, mobile, and even TweetDeck app.

Downdetector reported that thousands of users complained of issues with Twitter, but Twitter’s own status page claimed: “all systems operational.”

At 9:10 AM ET Twitter tweeted, “we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone,” but it appears that most people are already connecting again.

This is the first major Twitter outage since a series of problems for the social network in February. The platform was down twice in a week in February, with users unable to access the service in parts of the US due to a “technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting.”