Instagram and Twitter are facing outages after thousands of users complained of problems with the two social media apps.
Down Detector, a website that tracks Internet outages, showed a large increase in user glitch reports for Instagram since 10:48 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday.
Similar spikes were seen in Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and several other services around 12 noon or 1 p.m.
many journalists for Independent were unable to tweet on Wednesday, instead receiving an error message that said: “You have exceeded the daily limit for sending tweets.”
Several Twitter users who were able to tweet said they were having problems with Instagram, while users on Reddit said they were having problems with Twitter.
This story is developing and will be updated.