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Instagram Down Again: Users Worldwide Experienced Hours-Long Access Problems

Editorial illustration inspired by Todd Spangler’s @variety article.

According to his article, Instagram users across the globe reported problems sharing to and accessing the Facebook-owned photo and video service on mobile apps and the web on Wednesday — an outage that continued for much of the day.

According to Spangler, Instagram acknowledged the access problems in a tweet at 12:15 p.m. ET, apologizing for the outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble uploading or sending images and videos on Instagram,” the tweet said. “We’re sorry for the trouble and are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.

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