Instagram goes down: Hundreds of social media users unable to log in to photo-sharing website and app

Instagram on WEDNESDAY appears to have gone down with dozens of social media users unable to log in to the photo-sharing website. 

More than 1,000 people worldwide have reported problems with the Facebook-owned platform early on Wednesday morning.

Attempts to log in on a desktop browser are producing a blank page with the message: ‘5xx Server Error’.

On the mobile app users are being told that their feed cannot be refreshed.

Tweets posted by frustrated users suggested the Instagram outage stretched across the globe with the app not working in London, San Francisco or Singapore.

The website DownDetector said the problems had begun at 8.16am British time, which was 3.16am in New York and 5.16pm in Sydney.

Almost an hour later users were still receiving error messages when they tried to load the website.