{"id":278181,"date":"2018-10-03T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=278181"},"modified":"2018-10-03T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:08:15","slug":"instagram-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/278181-instagram-is-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s website is down, returning an error when users navigate to https:\/\/instagram.com.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to access the website returns a blank page with the following text: &#8220;5xx Server Error&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Website monitoring platform Down Detector showed a massive spike in user reports of problems with Instagram, with issues beginning at 09:24.<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/science-technology\/1026087\/Instagram-DOWN-Social-network-app-not-working-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0suggest the website is not the only service affected, with the Instagram mobile application also experiencing problems.<\/p>\n<p>Users have taken to other forms of social media, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/instagramdown?src=tren&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, to report issues with the platform.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-278187 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"Instagram\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed-600x313.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed-1200x625.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Instagram-down-fixed.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/277999-top-instagram-accounts-hacked-and-ransomed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top Instagram accounts hacked and ransomed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s website is down, returning an error when users navigate to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54257,10424,54259],"class_list":["post-278181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-down-detector","tag-instagram","tag-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278185,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278181\/revisions\/278185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}