Instagram Down, Outage? Story Upload Failures, Not Letting Users Post Pictures

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Instagram users reported problems with the photo-sharing app on Monday. More than 400 complaints were logged to the website Down Detector, most of which had to do with the app's news feed.

User reported not being able to post anything on the platform's story feature or on the main portion of the app. Some users reported receiving messages about trying again with a better connection. Others said they received messages saying "photo can't be posted."

Instagram had not yet responded to tweets about the issues on Monday.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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