Instagram Experiences Widespread Outage Affecting Thousands of Users
On Monday morning, July 27, Instagram experienced a significant outage, with over 4,000 users reporting issues. The problems began around 10:30 a.m. ET and were primarily reported by users in major cities such as New York City, Washington, DC, Dallas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Downdetector, a service that provides real-time outage updates, tracked the influx of reports. By 11:15 a.m. ET, the number of reports had decreased, indicating that the issue was being resolved. USA TODAY reached out to Meta, Instagram's parent company, for further information regarding the outage.