Instagram suffers outage globally, photo feed and DMs not working for many

Instagram, the world's most popular photo and video sharing platform, went down earlier in the day.

Instagram is suffering an outage in several parts of the world due to unclear issues. According to Downdetector, the platform that keeps track of internet outages, the Instagram services went down about an hour ago, while the reports about the outage peaked at around 12.15 pm. India seems to be the worst hit by the outage, with swaths of consumers reporting they are not able to access Instagram in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Chennai. Facebook has not taken note of the outage yet, but it is likely to address the problem through public communication channels. The problem behind the outage is not clear right now and it is something that Facebook will reveal after conducting an investigation into the matter. However, the outage seems to have affected a lot of services on the platform. According to Instagram users who took to Twitter and Downdetector's forum to report problems, the feed is not getting refreshed, the DMs are not working, and profiles are throwing an error when someone is trying to access them. Initially, people thought there was some issue with their internet connection, but people began to report issues in no time.