Outage

Downdetector has been hit with a sharp spike in Instagram users reporting that they were having problems using the platform's features.

Internet outages affected the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, some airlines, financial institutions and other companies across the globe. The outage at Akamai hit just days after a similar disruption happened with Fastly.

Cloud service company Fastly experienced an outage that caused dozens of websites to go out globally.

Internet users turned to Twitter as the social media network remained largely unaffected by the outage.

Many users were hit with a 503 error when they tried to access some of their favourite sites on Tuesday morning. CNN, Amazon and HBO Max were down at the time of writing. So, what does this outage mean?

More than 46,000 energy customers in Ohio are currently without power after the state was hit by a thunderstorm.

Hundreds of thousands of Texans are still without power as the state faces freezing winter temperatures.

More than 4.2 million energy customers in Texas are without power amid the winter storm hitting the state.

Texans are facing power outages as the state is hit by Winter Storm Uri's heavy snow and freezing temperatures.

Energy companies have been directed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to rotate power outages.

The workplace messaging app has been hit by a raft of problems with users unable to send or receive messages, connect to the platform or share files.

Emergency calls placed through the 911 system were affected in at least seven states during a Monday night loss of service.

Entergy has warned that the hardest-hit areas may be without power for weeks, as "restoration may be hampered by flooding, blocked access, or other obstacles."

"We have received reports of users being unable to visit the Zoom website (zoom.us) and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars," the company said, confirming reports of outages.

More than a million people across New York and New Jersey are without power, with energy companies warning that restorations could take days.

The energy company says restoration work in the hardest-hit areas could continue through the weekend.

"My Snapchat's aren't coming through and it comes up at the top with a grey error when I refresh," one frustrated user wrote to a verified support account on Twitter today.

DownDetector, a website that tracks the availability of websites, confirmed that problems had been recorded in a variety of locations spanning the U.S., from New York to San Francisco.

The Petnet SmartFeeder—which lets users automate the supply of portions of food to their cats or dogs at home with the help of a smartphone application—has been blasted on Twitter by impacted owners.

DownDetector, which tracks website outages, recorded a sharp spike in problems today, with a live map showing mounting connection issues in the U.S. and Europe.

A Comcast outage is affecting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) customers and police have issued advice to Connecticut residents.

Internet mapping tools and security analysts indicate new internet downtime aligned with the government's admission that its military shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.

Residents of the Washington DC and surrounding areas have reported Xfinity outages apparently due to planned maintenance work.

A guide on how to prepare for a power outage, including what to put in an emergency kit and how to develop an evacuation plan.

Tweetdeck was down and the users are taking their complaints to the four corners of the internet.

The problems prompted users to express their frustrations by sharing memes, photos and videos in tweets.

"People are sending things once but it's coming up 2-3 times," one Slack user complained on Twitter as the workplace chat app went into meltdown.

Discord is currently down and Twitter is going wild.

In a tweet from its @asktarget account, the company wrote that it is "aware of a systems issue in store and [is] working as quickly as possible to get this fixed."

Some said they couldn't access Facebook's photo sharing app and website at all, while others couldn't do any searches or access other parts of the service.