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Instagram services were down for thousands of users on Thursday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
The outage graph on downdetector showed a spike in reports around 7 am. While over 50% of the reported outage were regarding server connection, 20% were about login issues. Instagram hasn’t yet officially commented on this outage, but reports of problems are becoming increasingly common on Twitter.
Affected users said that when they attempt to open Instagram, the platform is crashing. People are unable to log in as well. As Instagram goes down in several parts of the world, people took to Twitter to share hilarious memes.