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Instagram down TODAY: Thousands of users complain of global outage and report issues with refreshing their feed

INSTAGRAM is down, locking out thousands of business pages and individual users.

Outages observed on Downdetector show tens of thousands of complaints compiling up this afternoon.

Instagram is owned by Meta

Instagram boasts about one billion monthly users – almost triple the monthly visitors Twitter hosts.

In a competitive nightmare for Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, account holders are flooding to Twitter and using with the hashtag #instagramdown to post about the platform’s latest outage.

Instagram had a comparable outage earlier this year, stranding users in a social media desert.

In 2012, before Facebook’s rebrand as Meta, Mark Zuckerberg led the company’s acquisition of Instagram for the bargain price of one billion dollars.

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Reports of outages peaked at around 1:00PM EST.

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