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Instagram app is now back up again after being down for many users globally
Instagram has been down for a lot of people since 6.00 am IST today.

After facing an outage for over two hours today, the Instagram app is now back up and running. While Instagram intimated in a tweet a few minutes ago about the app being back again, it did not reveal what caused the outage.[caption id="attachment_4605831" align="alignnone" width="1024"]
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram. Reuters[/caption]Instagram posted:Instagram was down for many users globally today. In India this issue started to occur at around 6.00 am today, that is 29 January. Even according to DownDetector, a website which monitors outages, between 6.00 am and 7.00 am today, there have been over 32,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram.Apparently, Instagram is aware of what has caused this issue. But the Instagram users are not, and as is custom, this outage is now turning into an outrage on Twitter, with a flood of "am I the only one" tweets.We will update this space as soon as there is any development to the issue.
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram. Reuters[/caption]Instagram posted:Instagram was down for many users globally today. In India this issue started to occur at around 6.00 am today, that is 29 January. Even according to DownDetector, a website which monitors outages, between 6.00 am and 7.00 am today, there have been over 32,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram.Apparently, Instagram is aware of what has caused this issue. But the Instagram users are not, and as is custom, this outage is now turning into an outrage on Twitter, with a flood of "am I the only one" tweets.We will update this space as soon as there is any development to the issue.First Published:Jan 29, 2019, 07:58:31 IST
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