Australians report widespread outage on Instagram, thousands flock to social media

Australians are scrambling to work out what’s happening as the major social media giant experiences a network outage.

Australians have desperately rushed to other social media networks to confirm a widespread Instagram outage.

Almost 2000 people from across Australia have reported an outage on the social media platform as of 11.25am on Friday, according to Down Detector.

Dozens of people have flocked to X - formerly known as Twitter - to get answers after they were repeatedly logged out of the platform.

“Spent the last 15 minutes panicking thinking my instagram was hacked and deleted but turns out it’s just down and i’m extremely overdramatic,” one user said in a post.

Australians are desperately rushing to other social media networks to confirm a widespread Instagram outage. Picture: DownDetector

“i literally freaked and the recovery email wasn’t coming through i thought i was DONE for,” another wrote.

“I was panicking too. Even went to my husband shouting I’m hacked! I’m hacked!,” a third said.

An outage map on Down Detector shows reports in Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

However the issue is not affecting ever user, with multiple people reporting they have had no issues with the platform on Friday.

You can now change your settings in Instagram so that it doesn’t censor political content. Only thing is… you can’t, actually. pic.twitter.com/hR8M69aN7t

— Jack Toohey (@jack_toohey) March 22, 2024

Me logging in every time Instagram logs me out pic.twitter.com/yfMjebywbk

— Husnain (@Husnain__95) March 22, 2024

Me coming to twitter to see if instagram down and logging everybody out pic.twitter.com/Qc7MTB3jIG

— Jeramy Desean (@Cityboyjerm) March 21, 2024

Meta – which owns Instagram – have yet to issue a statement on the issue.

Hundreds of thousands of users across the globe reported issues during a two-hour outage on both Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram early this month.

Users reported similar frustrating glitches with the app including being unable to log in to the two apps.

The incident was monitored by The White House National Security Council, the ABC reported.

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