Instagram is is up and running after a brief outage
On Monday, Instagram experienced a brief outage that began at around 2 PM ET. The issues included not being able to access your own profile, refresh your Instagram feed or produce posts. After about 45 minutes of being down, the app seems to be running as usual.
According to the app monitoring website Down Detector, users began reporting problems at around 2:08 pm ET, with more than 1,500 incidents reported at its peak. As of 2:49 PM, that number has fallen to 45 reports.
Users took to Twitter to vocalize their frustrations or make light of the situation.
#instagramdown again😡
— Ankesh Yadav (@yaduvansi_karn) December 12, 2022
me checking twitter to see if Instagram is down for everyone else #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/XraTFzibiV
— leonix 🫀 (@whoisleoniie) December 12, 2022
Insta down again #instagramdown #Instagram pic.twitter.com/D6ORWOeM4r
— वेल्ला इंसान (@ChadwaHannan) December 12, 2022
Instagram has yet to acknowledge the issue. The app just experienced an outage last week, which lasted approximately 45 minutes, according to reports.