Instagram is down for hundreds of users in major blackout

The outage is reported to be affecting users across the globe

Social media platform Instagram has suffered a worldwide blackout.

Reports are flooding in on Downdetector, with Instagram users saying they can’t log in.

The outage is impacting millions of users of the social media platform across the globe.

It has been reported that many users have had issues with audio on stories.

One user took to Reddit to report that they were receiving “song unavailable“ and “audio unavailable“ messages on the app.

They wrote: “I’m looking at my friends stories and no matter what every single story with music says audio unavailable and all highlights are missing audio except for posts that have music.”

Another Redditor replied: “Yes, im currently having the same problem too!”

Someone else said: “I was thinking the same. Every Reel stopped playing at 2 seconds and just got thrown into a infinite buffer zone.”

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated.