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UPDATE: June 14,The Swingin’ Stewardesses 2019, 10:23 a.m. AEST Instagram announced that the platform is "fully recovered" and that "[we] apologize for the disruption."

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There must be a glitch in the Matrix because Instagram appears to be down.

Beginning around 2 p.m. PT on Thursday, Instagram feeds stopped loading and refreshing for some users. Some received a gray bar saying, "Couldn't refresh feed." Instagram also displayed a red box with the message, "We're sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again."

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According to Down Detector, the problem is affecting the East and West Coast in the U.S., as well as parts of Europe and South America.

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Users, as always, turned to Twitter in their time of need for information, and solace.

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Mashable has reached out to Instagram to ask for more information on the outage.

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