India, July 23 -- Instagram users across the world faced another disruption on Wednesday, with thousands reporting that direct messages (DMs) were not working, making it the second major outage involving Meta's platforms in just a few days.

The issue appeared to affect Instagram's messaging feature, with users saying they were unable to send or receive DMs. Several users also reported login difficulties and problems connecting to Instagram's servers during the outage.

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, complaints about Instagram began rising sharply on Wednesday, with reports surging as users flagged issues with the platform. The number of complaints reportedly crossed thousands before gradually declining as services beg...