{"id":997723,"date":"2026-03-12T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997723"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:02:57","slug":"instagram-down-users-report-messaging-issues-amid-widespread-outage-affecting-app-functionality-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/12\/instagram-down-users-report-messaging-issues-amid-widespread-outage-affecting-app-functionality-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram down? Users report messaging issues amid widespread outage affecting app functionality worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram, one of the most famous social media platforms, faced a major outage today, leaving thousands of users unable to send or receive direct messages. The issue quickly sparked confusion online as many people thought there was a problem with their app or internet connection. <\/p>\n<p>According to Downdetector\u2019s outage graph it is evident that reports began increasing early in the morning, with a major spike recorded around 9:15 AM. At that time, the platform recorded more than 12,000 reports, significantly higher than the normal baseline of around 23 reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram, one of the most famous social media platforms, faced a major outage today, leaving thousands of users unable to send or receive direct messages. The issue quickly sparked confusion online as many people thought there was a problem with their app or internet connection. According to Downdetector\u2019s outage graph it is evident that reports began increasing early in the morning, with a major spike recorded around 9:15 AM. At that time, the platform recorded more than 12,000 reports, significantly higher than the normal baseline of around 23 reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}