Social Media Apps down again; Users report outage, Instagram logging out automatically

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, hundreds of users were unable to access Instagram owned by Meta Platforms.

At the height of the outage, over 5,000 users in the US reported having trouble accessing the photo-sharing website, according to website.

Seventy percent of users reported having trouble logging in, 19% reported having problems accessing the app, and 11% reported having problems connecting to servers.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Earlier this month, on March 5, Facebook and Instagram both had a global outage due to user complaints regarding login problems on the two social media sites, with some users reporting that they were being locked out of both Facebook and Instagram. Some even requested password changes after being unable to refresh Instagram pages.