Instagram is DOWN: Hundreds of thousands of users worldwide cannot access their accounts

Instagram is down for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, as many are unable to log in to their accounts in the app and website.

The outage began around 11:45am ET and is impacting users in the US, South America, Asia and Europe – among other regions.

It is not clear what sparked the glitches, but users say the cannot access their accounts and it they can, the feed is not loading – and this is impacting the app for both iOS and Android.

Many users are frustrated by the outage, highlighting the fact that such events seem to happen regularly.

Instagram is down for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, as many are unable to log in to their accounts in the app and website

Many users have flocked to Twitter to see if others are having problems with Instagram, which they found tens of thousands of tweets complaining about the outage.

One Twitter user posted: ‘HELLO HERE WE GO AGAIN.’

This could be referring to the numerous outages the social media platform experiences.

Many users are frustrated by the outage, highlighting the fact that such events seem to happen regularly

The outage started around 11:45am ET and is impacting users worldwide. Many people flocked to Twitter to share their frustrations of the social media platform not working properly

Some users are able to access their accounts, but say their messages are taking longer to load or are not loading at all.

And others report the feed is not refreshing. 

It is not known when the issues will be rectified. DailyMail.com has contacted Instagram.