As popular as Google …
Instagram is the fifth most visited website in the world after Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia.
Any outage will have a major effect on communications across the world, with users in the US also reporting a problem accessing messages.
What is the problem?
Users started reporting issues with the app at 11am this morning – nearly 80 per cent of users are experiencing problems with accessing it. Other issues include sharing and uploading messages.
We’ll bring you more detail as we have it.
UK has 33.1 million Instagram users
Here are some more statistics on the popular messaging service:
- It is the sixth most searched term on Google, with a search volume of 414 million.
- 20.3% of all active internet users use Instagram daily.
- Users spend an average of 33.9 minutes per day on Instagram.
- The most popular countries for Instagram are India, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey.
- The United Kingdom has 33.1 million Instagram users
Slight fall in the number of reported outages
This is usually an indication that the issue is being resolved.
We’ll keep you posted with all the latest updates.
The latest from the US
Here is the latest from Downdetector on the number of users in the US reporting problems with Instagram.
