New Delhi: Photo sharing App Instagram is down for thousands of users across the globe. According to the outage monitoring website Downdetector.com, thousands of users were unable to access Instagram on Friday.


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According to Downdetector, which analyses outages by compiling status data from a variety of sources including user-submitted issues on its platform, 43% people on App,  40% on  Website and 16% people on Feed were experiencing trouble accessing the social network.


A rise in reports was visible on the down detector outage graph at 9.20 pm EDT. Almost 50 percent of the reported outages involved server connections, but only 20 percent involved login problems. Almost 2,000 UK users were affected, while there were over 1,000 reports each from India and Australia, according to Downdetector.



Meanwhile, Instagram down has started trending on Twitter, thus opening a barrage of memes on the social media microblogging site.








Meta-owned Instagram is reportedly testing a feature that would let users chat with AI (artificial intelligence) within the app. Leaker Alessandro Paluzzi in a tweet shared the development, claiming that the platform has an AI agent in the pipeline.

According to the screenshots he shared, the chatbot will be able to answer questions and provide advice. Users could have up to 30 personalities to choose from.