INSTAGRAM has gone down with users across the globe reporting issues with some blaming the avalanche of searches about the “Diddy trial”.
Thousands of users have reported that they are experiencing problems on the popular Meta-owned app.
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Common problems include loading the feed, viewing posts and comments on both public and private pages.
Others are also facing larger issues loading the app or logging into accounts as it keeps crashing.
Over 2,000 reports of problems on Insta have been flagged at the time of writing, according to downdetector.
The outage tracking website saw a spike in the number of reports today just after 4pm in the UK.
More than 16,000 users have reported issues to downdetector across the globe.
Some users in both the UK and US also encountered other technical problems while using the meta-owned app.
A number of users reported not being able to see pages of their followers.
It saw a huge number of social media users taking to X, formerly Twitter, to share their problems using Insta.
Some speculated that searches for the P Diddy trial had caused the crash.
Diddy was dramatically acquitted of the most serious charges he faced today, sparking mass discussions on social media.
After less than three days of deliberation and an initial split verdict on Tuesday, the jury convicted Sean “Diddy” Combs of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
One user said: “Diddy found not guilty for the Rico charges and Instagram wants to go down.”
Others vented their frustration after experiencing Instagram problems.
A second said: “Will forever run to X whenever Instagram is down to check if it’s just me or the whole world’s collapsing.”
Another wrote: “I was in people Instagram pages thinking they blocked me but whole time Instagram was down.”
“Only here to see if I’m the only one with Instagram problems,” a fourth commented.
It comes after a major outage earlier in the year left WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all out of action.
Many users took to social media to ask other people if they were experiencing the same problems.
Reports had initially come in of failures with WhatsApp but these later extended to the full set of Meta apps as well as TikTok.
