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"UPDATE: About two hours after what appeared to be a worldwide outage, it looks like Instagram's service has been gradually restored, at least in many areas of the US. At about 8:58 pm PT, images started to move through the stalled\u00A0servers. There's still no official word yet from Instagram, but the photo app has removed a tweet announcing problems on its service (as seen below), which should mean that the issues have been fixed.\r\n\r\nOur original story follows.\r\n\r\nIf you had ideas about sharing your Friday evening or weekend pictures on Instagram with your friends, you were likely disappointed. The Facebook-owned photo app was down for some people, but Instagram told users that\u00A0the team was\u00A0working to get things right again.\r\nWe\u2019re aware of a server issue affecting some people and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience!\r\n\r\n\u2014 Instagram (@instagram) June 7, 2014\r\nThird-party monitoring service Down Detector\u00A0notes that the\u00A0outage started at around 10:00 pm ET so this is turning out to be quite a lengthy downtime. Many users have probably seen this message on their news feed in Instagram after realizing that their stream of photos hasn't been populated in a while. \r\n\r\nThe outage seems to be mainly affecting the mobile version of Instagram, as the website still seems to work for many -- but that only allows you to view photos. Attempting to upload photos on your mobile phone likely just presents a 'failed' result, as for many right now.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThere's no news from Instagram yet on what's affecting the service, but we have reached out to Facebook and Instagram and will update with any response.\r\n\r\nFacebook bought Instagram\u00A0for $1 billion back in 2012. It\u00A0now has\u00A0over 200 million monthly active users\u00A0and more than 20 billion photos have been shared on the service to date. The last major outage was just in April, which Instagram put down to a 'feed delivery issue.'\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019re addicted to Instagram \u2014 like many out there \u2014 we recommend keeping an eye on the company\u2019s Twitter account (@Instagram)\u00A0for the latest updates, and reports on Twitter from users all over the world too.\r\n\r\nTweets about &amp;quot;Instagram down&amp;quot;// "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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