Folks all over the world had been having bother accessing the photo-sharing app Instagram Tuesday.

Downdetector reported a spike in complaints of Instagram being offline for them, with hundreds of individuals reporting issues with the app. The spike in complaints was reported in international locations like the USA, the UK, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Japan and extra.

This present outage is seemingly a part of a pattern from the app. A ToolTester report from September 2021 outages over the previous yr discovered that Instagram was the social media platform with probably the most outages within the U.S. and U.Ok., with 192 outages, Social Media At this time reported. Twitter, which ranked second, had lower than a 3rd as many outages in the identical time interval.

In a press release despatched to Newsweek, a spokesperson for Meta, Instagram's father or mother firm, mentioned the problem was mounted.

"Earlier at present, a technical problem prompted some folks to have bother accessing Instagram," the spokesperson mentioned. "We resolved the problem as shortly as potential for everybody who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

In October of final yr, Instagram introduced a function that's meant to inform customers of any technical difficulties or outages the app is experiencing. Nevertheless, it seems many haven't acquired this notification, as folks flocked to Twitter underneath the hashtag #instagramdown to ensure the app was actually down.

Some even tweeted GIFs of individuals operating to explain them dashing to Twitter to examine on Instagram's standing. Based on Instagram's October announcement, the function just isn't meant to tell folks each time there may be an outage, however added that "once we see that individuals are confused and searching for solutions, we'll decide if one thing like this might assist make issues clearer."

Based on the ToolTester report, the "largest wrongdoer" for outages within the U.Ok. was the app's newsfeed, which was chargeable for 83 p.c of the nation's points with Instagram. Within the U.S., the newsfeed not loading was the principle problem in 71 p.c of outage instances. Issues logging in and points on the web site additionally occurred.

Social Media At this time prompt the problems could possibly be attributable to the app being overloaded with new options like Instagram Tales, Reels and IGTV, although it additionally mentioned elevated utilization could possibly be inflicting the issues.

Statistics from Downdetector present Instagram additionally skilled points final month, with 61 p.c of customers reporting the app was down and one other 28 p.c reporting the web site was down. Fb, which owns Instagram, additionally skilled an outage in the beginning of the yr, with 85 p.c of individuals complaining they might not entry the web site, Rising Candle reported.

The Instagram outage comes per week after Apple reported issues with messaging, iCloud, Apple Music and extra of its applied sciences. Different firms equivalent to Slack and Netflix additionally skilled points earlier this yr.

Replace 03/29/22 2:50 p.m. ET: This story was up to date so as to add extra data and background.

Instagram Down Around the World
Instagram just isn't working for customers all over the world. Above, on this photograph illustration, the social media utility logos for Twitter, Google, Google+, Gmail, Fb, Instagram and Snapchat are displayed on the display screen of an Apple iPhone on October 8, 2018, in Paris, France.Photograph Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Pictures