Key Points
According to the outage tracker, Donwdetector, users started facing issues today around 7 AM, with more reports coming in the next 40 minutes..
The outage tracker shows that Instagram users in India were not widely affected, though some reported issues from Mumbai and Delhi (which is normal)..
Downdetector highlights that the majority of users are facing issues with "server connection", while some are unable to use the app..
Interestingly, Instagram's so-called outage comes days after Twitter faced a similar problem and many users were unable to access the platform..
However, a report suggested that Twitter was down for many users, especially in the US, due to an error caused by a single engineer who looks after APIs (Application Programming Interface)..
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