According to the website Downdetector, users in Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, as well as parts of the US have been experienceing issues with Instagram.
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The first thing users do when Instagram is down appears to be tweeting to find out if they are alone in their difficulties with the social media platform. They have been using a very popular hashtag — #InstagramDown.
When people try to access Instagram, the social media platform displays a "5xx Server Error":
Neither Facebook, which owns the photo-sharing platform, nor Instagram have commented on the reasons behind the technical issue.