Instagram outage fixed, company blames ‘technical issue’ for inconvenience

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The app was down for thousands of users with more than 30,000 users reporting issues in accessing Instagram on Downdetector.com..

In a Twitter post, Instagram Comms the platforms PR team said that the outage was caused due to a technical issue which caused people to have trouble accessing the app..

We resolved this issue for everyone as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience," reads the post shared by the PR team of Instagram on Twitter..

Furthermore, 81% of the users faced issues while using the app while 15% faced issues while using the website and 5% users faced issues while logging in..

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