On Downdetector.in, Instagram outage complaints experienced a sharp increase. Over 9,500 outages in India were recorded by the website that monitors outages throughout the world.
The downtime began at around 4 AM (IST) and ended at approximately 5:20 AM. Over 1,88,000 outages were recorded worldwide..
Instagram announced its return via a tweet from its official account. We apologise for the inconvenience; we experienced a brief outage earlier and have since fixed the problem.