Instagram and Facebook are DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are experiencing an outage affecting news feeds and logins
- Instagram and Facebook have gone done across the world, affecting thousands
- Both seemed Thursday afternoon in the US, Europe, South America and Canada
- Users say they cannot refresh news feed and others cannot log in at all
If your Instagram and Facebook news feeds are not refreshing, you are not alone.
The social media platforms are experience an outage across the world that have hit thousands in the US, Europe, South America and parts of Canada .
The outage appears to have started Thursday afternoon and is affecting news feed, logins and some users have a ‘total blackout.’
DownDetector shows the Instagram outage is plaguing more users than its parent company.
Instagram is experience an outage across the world that has hit thousands in the US, Europe, South America and parts of Russia. The outage appears to have started around 1:50pm ET and is affecting News Feed, the desktop website and causing problems of logging in
DownDetector, a site that monitors outages on social media platforms, websites and online services, began to show issue reports about Instagram Thursday afternoon.
There appears to be more users in the US plagued with issues, compared to other countries, with parts of California, New York City and Southern California all highlighted red on DownDetector’s outage map.
Across the Atlantic, parts of Ireland, Portugal, the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden seem to be experiencing an outage.