Australian users unable to refresh Instagram amid outage

Australians have shared their frustration after a major issue with Instagram that emerged Thursday afternoon.

Instagram is currently down with Australian users unable to refresh their feeds.

The outage came as reports the META website has been affected globally, with account holders been delivered messages including, “couldn’t refresh feed” and “couldn’t load posts”.

Thousands of Australians reported the outage to Down Detector just before 2pm on Thursday.

The hashtag #InstagramDown has been trending in some regions around the world.

Instagram has yet to publicly confirm the outage.

Many users have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage, which appears to have affected people in other parts of the world.

Down Detector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and at least 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.

Everyone coming to twitter to confirm instagram is down #instagramdownpic.twitter.com/M88I0cvpvV

— cesar (@jebaiting) March 9, 2023

Some users have been shown nothing but the spinning loading wheel, while others are presented old posts.

The photo-sharing platform also went down in the United States, with more than 46,000 users reporting issues during its peak.

Replies to the most recent tweet from Instagram were mostly from people complaining about the website being down.

“What is going on with the IG app right now? It’s completely down and then saying it can’t load anything,” one user wrote.

Dozens of others demanded they “fix the app now”.