Instagram is experiencing a widespread outage with users reporting problems viewing stories

Instagram was offline for thousands of users in the US on Friday.

Starting around 3:30 PM ET, people started reporting issues viewing stories, uploading posts, and sending direct messages.

Meta, the parent company that owns Instagram, said it is investigating the issue and working on a solution. It said there would be an update tonight at 8pm.

Mark Zuckerberg’s company suffered its largest outage ever in March, shutting down Facebook, Instagram and Messenger for hours.

Instagram was offline for thousands of users in the US on Friday

This is the number of reports submitted to the outage tracker site Down Detector. This shows that thousands of users were experiencing issues around 3:30 PM ET on Friday. The reports only concern a small number of people who are actually experiencing problems

Thousands of users reported problems with Instagram on Friday via the outage tracker website Down Detector.

But these probably represent a fraction of the number of users actually experiencing problems.

More to come

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