Instagram is down! Thousands report outage with social media users saying they've been kicked out of their accounts for the second time in two days

Meta's Instagram is down for a second consecutive day, just over 24 hours after millions were locked out of accounts across the company's social platforms.

DownDetector, a site that monitors online disturbances, reported thousands of complaints with the app across the US. 

What has sparked the problem is not yet known, but comes 16 days since the social media platforms were knocked offline due to an internal issue. 

The problems began being reported just before 7pm ET, with users posting images of their accounts being inaccessible and 'logged out.' 

Users of the platform are flocking to Elon Musk's X to share their frustrations, but also see if they are the only ones experiencing problems.

Meta's Facebook , Instagram and Messenger are down worldwide, leaving user unable to scroll, post or contact friends

#Instgramdown is trending on X, sparking a flood of what appears to be scammers claiming they can help people regain access to their social media accounts. 

'It's time again... #instagramdown,' wrote one user posting a meme explaining how they were moving from Instagram to X.

'Yes I have experienced this #instagramdown been logged out of all my accounts,' added another.

Another begged Musk to solve the problem. 

'What happened to Instagram? Why is it logging out users? @elonmusk, can you please buy Insta too. Zuck sucks.'

Another was worried that his job was at stake due to the outage. 

'Not me thinking that instagram have finished my career, only to come to twitter and find out that Instagram is Down,' they wrote. 

The outages have brought up memories of the one that hit on March 5, which seemed to spark chaos online worldwide. 

Users of the platform are flocking to Elon Musk's X to share their frustrations, but also see if they are the only ones experiencing problems

While it lasted for no more than two hours, users were outraged by not being able to access the three social media platforms.

A source inside Facebook told DailyMail.com that the company's internal systems were also down, which may have led to the issues - it is unclear if similar problems sparked today's outage.

The majority of issue reports also cited problems with the apps – 72 percent for Facebook, 64 percent for Instagram and Messenger is at 50 percent. 

Meta's service dashboard, which lists its services, continued to show major disruptions for some features – but then switched to 'Unknown' for all or completely blank. 

While reason for both outages have remained unclear, it comes three years after Facebook experienced a seven-hour blackout that cost the company an estimated $100million in lost revenue.

The global outage – which hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger – was caused when a faulty update that disconnected its servers from the internet, meaning engineers had to travel to its Santa Clara data center to fix the glitch in-person.

But the repair was delayed, according to one insider who was posting on Reddit, because of 'lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures'.

The glitch, which prompted calls for a break-up of big tech firms, also brought down messaging services that remote-working staff use to communicate.

So those who knew how to fix the servers couldn't get that information to the teams inside the data-center, the insider said.

Also disabled were key-fob entry systems at Facebook's main campus in Menlo, meaning those who had been WFH but rushed back to the office could not get inside while those already inside were unable to access conference rooms and other areas that required a pass.

DailyMail.com has reached out to a spokesperson for Instagram for comment.