Several people are reporting a bug on Instagram today, Thursday, September 2, 2021. On DownDetector, there is a spike of over 4,600 reports, same story on the IsTheServiceDown platform.
Unable to post, message or publish a story… Some people also complain about frequent delays related to application crashes.
The hashtag #instagramdown
You may also encounter an error message in the web version.
The disruption of Instagram seems to be really affecting users around the world. For example, the hashtag #instagramdown is trending on Twitter.
In addition to the hashtags in question, they are posted in several languages, predicting the global nature of the outage.