Instagram suffers outage as users are logged out automatically, US most affected

Meta’s social media platform Instagram suffered a major outage on Friday (Mar 22) with thousands of users saying they were not able to access the photo-sharing app.

According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 5,000 users were facing the issue while logging into the app, with the most number of users being affected in the United States. As per the Insider Paper report, users are complaining of their Instagram accounts getting logged out automatically.

Several sources showed 70 per cent of login issues, 19 per cent facing issues with the app and 11 per cent of users facing server connection issues.

Previously, Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, went dark on March 5 as users were getting logged out automatically.

Some were even unable to refresh Instagram pages. Many users were also asked to change passwords. Soon after, YouTube users also started facing a similar issue.

Reactions on social media

One user on X wrote, “Instagram users rushing to Twitter like: “Please entertain me, I can’t handle this downtime.”

Another wrote, “Thought I lost my Instagram account or someone hacked it. Turned out Instagram is down. Good night…”

“Anybody else get randomly logged out of #instagram just now? Is #instagramdown again?”