Instagram and other Facebook products aren’t loading for users. Here are a few possible reasons Instagram is down.
Tech At least we still have TikTok. If you’d picked today to upload a meticulously curated photo dump to your Finsta, you may be out of luck. Many users are wondering why Instagram is down today, as the app and the website seem to refuse to load. People attempting to update the Instagram app are seeing «Couldn’t refresh feed» notifications. What’s more, neither Facebook nor messaging platform WhatsApp seem to be working as of mid-day on Monday, Oct.4. Bustle has reached out to Facebook for comment on why the apps are experiencing issues, and will update this post when we receive a response. A Facebook spokesman, Andy Stone, Tweeted that the team was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible” shortly after noon E.T. People took to Twitter — which is still working, thankfully — to see if others were experiencing the same issues. The website Down Detector confirms problems with Facebook products writ large, citing over 100,000 reports as of 12 p.
