By Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:26 BST, 13 June 2019 | Updated: 05:48 BST, 14 June 2019
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Instagram has been hit by a major global outage, preventing users around the world from accessing the Facebook-owned social media app.
The app began experiencing problems around 2:30 p.m. (ET), preventing Instagram users from the United States to Australia from refreshing their feeds.
Many have also complained that they cannot post photos, send messages to other users or login.
The firm confirmed the outage in a tweet late Thursday evening.
Instagram has been hit by a major global outage, preventing users around the world from accessing the Facebook-owned social media app
'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing their Instagram accounts,' the firm wrote in a tweet. 'We're working quickly to fix the issue.'
Mail Online has reached out to the company for further comment.
Some Instagram users who tried to scroll through their feed were instead hit with an error message: 'Something went wrong. Please try again later.'
In other cases, users were served a message that read: 'Couldn't refresh feed' and '5xx error.'
Users in Europe, most of the US, South America, Australia, Russia and other regions appear to be those hit hardest by the outage, according to Down Detector
Users in Europe, most of the US, South America, Australia, Russia and other regions appear to be those hit hardest by the outage, according to Down Detector.
By 6:00 p.m. (ET), more than 50,000 user reports of an outage had been submitted to the site.
As usual, users took to Twitter to express their frustration about the outage.
'Fix your app,' one user replied to a tweet from Instagram's official account. 'How can such a huge name
