Instagram is DOWN: Social media app crashes for frustrated users around the world
Daily MailIt's one of the most popular social media apps around the world, but it appears that Instagram has crashed this afternoon. It's one of the most popular social media apps around the world, but it appears that Instagram has crashed this afternoon One user in India posted a clip of them trying to load the Instagram app on their smartphone before it crashes and takes the user back to the homepage. Instagram is yet to comment on the outage, which appears to be the third it's experienced in March alone Multiple users reported receiving the above message on their smartphone on Tuesday The Instagram outage on Tuesday afternoon appeared to be affecting users all over the world DownDetector, an independent outage monitor website, tweeted just after 3pm on Tuesday: 'User reports indicate Instagram is having problems since 10:08 AM EDT.' Graphic from the site of independent outage monitor website DownDetector shows Instagram outages reported in the last 24 hours 'Imagine a planet where Instagram doesn't crash': Outages on the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site have been pretty frequent this month 'The only ones who never disappoints me' on user tweeted in response to Tuesday's Instagram outage.