Instagram hit by second outage in 3 days as messages fail to send

Instagram suffered a major service disruption on Wednesday evening, with users worldwide reporting that direct messages were failing to send or receive, marking the second large-scale outage in just three days.

The problem began around 9pm in parts of Asia, with outage reports spiking on monitoring site Downdetector. Some users also experienced login failures and issues connecting to the server.

Facebook was also affected in Europe and the US, with thousands of complaints reported.

The outage follows a global disruption on Sunday that affected Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, with thousands of users unable to log in or load feeds. Meta has not yet commented on the cause of either incident.

By late Wednesday, service appeared to have been restored for many users.

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