New photo Instagram down LATEST – app is back online after mystery outage on Wednesday morning

INSTAGRAM stopped working on Wednesday morning in a surprise global outage – but it’s now back online.

The popular image-sharing app received thousands of complaints from users who couldn’t get the News Feed to refresh or the desktop website to load.

The website Down Detector tracked a huge spike in complaints at around 8am UK time

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Attempting to refresh the News Feed brings up a ‘Couldn’t refresh feed’ error

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The website-outage tracker Down Detector’s live chart tracked a large spike of user reports about Instagram at 8am UK time.

Roughly half of the reports are related to the News Feed not working properly, while an additional 30% are about log-in issues.

And 18% of users complained that the website wasn’t loading correctly.

The Sun was able to confirm the issue – attempting to reload your News Feed brings up a “Couldn’t refresh feed” error.

An live outage tracker map revealed that users all around the world were experiencing issues, including the UK and Europe, which had just woken up

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Trying to load the Instagram website brings up a ‘5xx Server Error’ message

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It meant it was impossible to see new photos and videos being uploaded to the site, with many users waking up this morning only seeing old posts from yesterday.

Users took to Twitter to complain about the gaffe.

One wrote: “Who else comes straight to Twitter to see if Instagram is down?”

Another said: “Literally just came onto Twitter to see if Instagram was down this is our culture now.”

In a statement, an Instagram spokesperson told The Sun: “We’re aware that some users are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”

The website and app appear to have resumed normal function at around 9.15am UK time.

Users were posting memes about Instagram being down within minutes of the outage

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Scores of tweets were being posted by the minute about the outage, with one user saying: ‘What are we ever gonna do with our lives now?’

Instagram – the key facts

Here's what you need to know...

• Instagram is a social network for sharing photos and videos


• It was created back in October 2010 as an iPhone-exclusive app


• A separate version for Android devices was released 18 months later


• The app rose to popularity thanks to its filters system, which lets you quickly edit your photos with cool effects


• When it first launched, users could only post square 1:1 ratio images, but that rule was changed in 2015


• In 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1billion in cash and stock


• In 2018, some analysts believe the app is worth closer to $100billion


• In October 2015, Instagram confirmed that more than 40billion photos had been uploaded to the app


• And in 2018, Instagram revealed that more than a billion people were using the app every month

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It’s rare for Instagram to go down, although we have seen a few major outages this year.

There were two big outages in June, and a third in July, although one of those only affected Android users.

There’s no official word on what caused Wednesday’s issue, but it appears to be related to Instagram’s servers – huge computers that hold the information you’re trying to access.

When you attempted to load up the desktop website, you got the error code ‘5xx’ – that’s the codename for server issues.

The good news is that other Facebook-owned services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook proper are all working correctly.

Have you experienced any issues with Instagram? Let us know in the comments!

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