For a couple of hours on sunday evening, Instagram was down. The app’s feed was frozen, tossing users errors saying that it couldn’t refresh, while the website gave only a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak, but by 7:30PM ET, the issue appears to have been resolved and it’s working again.
In an email to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold acknowledged the outage, saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Given the timing, the outage quicly surfaced as a…
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