For a couple of hours on sunday evening, Instagram was down. The app’s feed was frozen, tossing users errors saying that it couldn’t refresh, while the website gave only a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak, but by 7:30PM ET, the issue appears to have been resolved and it’s working again.
In an email to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold…
