Instagram suffered an outage on Sunday, May 21 inflicting customers to flock to Twitter and ask if the social media platform was down.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience,” a Meta spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to The Verge.
The platform has since labored out its points and customers have been in a position to submit once more. Other Meta platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook had been seemingly unaffected by the Instagram outage.
Instagram shared an replace on Twitter, “Instagram is back! Sorry for the trouble – we had a brief outage earlier and resolved the issue that caused it.”
When customers tried to refresh their Instagram feed utilizing the app on iPhone, they had been introduced with a cached feed and unable to see newer posts. A notification on the backside of the app reads, “Couldn’t refresh feed.”
Some celebrities took to Twitter to ask concerning the outage. Former The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes tweeted, “What is wrong with instagram today?”
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