No, don’t worry – it’s not just you. Instagram really is down right now. According to users of the social media app, Instagram is experiencing a number of technical difficulties this morning including not being able to send Direct Messages (DMs). The gremlins appear to have begun at around 11:30 am with the issues still ongoing.
Down Detector, which tracks “when services go down or have outages”, is currently showing a massive spike in reports that Instagram is struggling. In fact, there’s over 2,000 mentions which shows this is pretty big problem for the Meta-owned photo-sharing platform.
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