Instagram has been hit by a service outage, which left many users unable to see updates to their feed or post new images.
Reports of problems appeared on Thursday afternoon, with users in the UK and around the world claiming there were unable to refresh their news feed or log into the photo-sharing platform.
The issue was fixed within 30 minutes, but thousands of users took to other social media platforms to complain about the outage, which led to the hashtag #instagramdown trending on Twitter.
Independent website monitoring service Down Detector confirmed the issue, having received reports from users in the UK as well as across Europe and the US who said they had been unable to access the site.
when your instagram isn’t working so you search "instagram down" on twitter to see if you’re not the only one #instagramdown 😰
— 𝕜𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕖 (@benzo_blackburn) May 10, 2018
#instagramdown oh No! Now i cant post what i had for Lunch…
— Eric (@Eric__007) May 10, 2018
Great! The only time i actually need this app… it's down. #instagramdown
— madamitaF (@FMadamita) May 10, 2018
The Facebook-owned service has not commented on what caused the issue.
Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users globally.
