Instagram is down, your cute cat photo will have to wait

Popular ad platform image sharing platform Instagram is down, apparently globally. 

The desktop version of the site only produces an ugly “5xx Server Error” text — we don’t even get a nice image. Mobile version of the app also isn’t responding. 

Instagram outages aren’t all that uncommon — we’ve seen quite a few over the years — but this one appears to be total. We’ve tried accessing the site from the U.S., Australia and several European countries and the result was the same. 

Image: Stan Schroeder/Mashable

Down Detector currently shows people complaining about Instagram being down in these regions as well, though there aren’t too many complaints right now.  Read more…

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