According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, reports of Instagram issues began climbing sharply at around 6:30 a.m., with complaints quickly exceeding 2,000 before peaking at roughly 4,000, News.Az reports, citing Tomsguide.
User reports suggested that Instagram’s Direct Messages (DMs) were the primary feature affected during the outage, with many saying messages failed to send or were not delivered.
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The messaging issues appeared to last for approximately two hours before reports began declining.
While Instagram accounted for the vast majority of complaints, smaller spikes were also reported for other Meta-owned platforms.
Downdetector recorded several hundred reports involving Messenger and Facebook, although neither service experienced disruptions on the same scale as Instagram.
The simultaneous increase led some users to speculate that the problems were linked to Meta’s messaging infrastructure.
Despite the widespread reports, Meta did not publicly acknowledge the incident on its official status page during the disruption.
By the time reports subsided, the service appeared to be recovering, with most users regaining access to Instagram’s messaging features.
The incident marks another reminder of how outages affecting major social media platforms can quickly disrupt communication for millions of users worldwide.
