Instagram down: App and website not working as feeds refuse to refresh

Instagram has stopped working, leaving people unable to see new pictures.

Users find themselves unable to refresh their feed, with new posts refusing to display. It might not be immediately clear there is a problem – but trying to refresh by pulling up can cause the app to hang and not load.

The problems were widespread across the world, according to the site Down Detector. They were particularly present in Western Europe and the east coast of the US, though that might simply be a result of timezones and where the company's users tend to be.

Instagram had run into separate problems the day before, according to the same website.

The outage comes less than a day after a major issue at Netflix, which sent the streaming service down for hours. That has since been fixed.