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Instagram went down for some users on Friday.
Affected users were unable to refresh the photo-sharing app, or to access its website. It's not immediately clear what caused the outage, and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On the downtime-monitoring website Down Detector, users across the world — particularly the coastal United States and Northern Europe — reported issues accessing the Facebook-owned app.
As of 12.30 p.m. PT, the app seemed to be back online for most users.
The outage appears to have affected different users differently: Multiple people in Business Insider's office in San Francisco were unable to refresh the app or load its website, though this reporter could access it seemingly without issue.
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