Was Instagram down? Users reported outage issues on Thursday
Instagram launches teen accounts with new restrictions
Meta announced earlier this week that they will introduce "Instagram Teen Accounts". The company said that the accounts will be a "new experience for teens, guided by parents". LiveNOW from FOX host Christy Matino spoke to Vanessa Paz Dennen, Professor of Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies to break it all down.
Instagram appeared to be down for some users on Thursday.
Downdetector.com, a website where users can report outages, showed thousands of reports of outages Thursday afternoon.
Is Instagram down?
What we know:
According to downdetector.com, there was a spike of nearly 12,000 outage reports around 7:30 p.m. ET time. By 7:45 p.m. ET, more than 31,000 social media users reported issues.
According to the website, 72% of respondents said they had issues with the app, following 24% who said they had an issue with the server connection.
Other sites owned by Meta, including Facebook, had about 550 reports of outages on Thursday afternoon.
By 9 p.m. ET, the outage number declined drastically, with only about 400 people reporting issues.
What we don't know:
It’s unclear how big the outage is, how many users are affected across the platforms, and what caused the outage.
FILE - The Instagram application can be seen on the display of a smartphone. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Instagram did not publicly responded regarding the issue. FOX TV Stations reached out to Instagram for more information.
The Source: The information for this story was provided by Down Detector. This story was reported from Los Angeles.