Instagram Down for Thousands of Users Tuesday, Downdetector Shows

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By Anthony W. Haddad

Published 4 weeks ago on

May 19, 2026

A man walks past a logo of mobile application Instagram, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. (Reuters File)

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Instagram is experiencing a possible outage Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.

More than 2,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 11:59 a.m. PDT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said they were experiencing issues with the mobile application and website.

Update at 12:22 p.m.

More than 4,000 users have now reported an issue with Instagram.

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Anthony W. Haddad,

Multimedia Journalist

Anthony W. Haddad, who graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with his undergraduate degree and attended Fresno State for a MBA, is the Swiss Army knife of GV Wire. He writes stories, manages social media, and represents the organization on the ground.