Less than a week of its sibling Whatsapp going down, it was Instagram's turn on 31st October to keep mindlessly scrolling without understanding what had hit them. Instagram was down for almost 8 hours as it randomly suspended many accounts worldwide. The Instagram outage was mostly on IOS devices and displayed the message “We have suspended your account on October 31. You have 30 days remaining to disagree with this decision.”
After having their accounts suspended many users took to other social media apps to complain of this sudden move - some confused, many angry about Meta's frequent tech glitches.
Instagram then released an official statement on twitter apologising and saying, "“We're aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account. We're looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience.” By then, about 7000 reports had been registered already for the outage, as reported by outage tracker, DownDetector. A few major sufferers of the sudden loss of followers and unexplained suspensions were big accounts like Cristiano Ronaldo and Instagram itself.
Though it came back up within a few hours, these frequent mess-ups are irritating users that have fewer alternatives to their favourite apps. Instagram put out a statement saying, "We’ve resolved this bug now – it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in number of followers."
A few days ago, it was Whatsapp, the other major product for Meta which suffered the outage in India and major markets across the world - where over 66000 reports of the outage were reported worldwide.
Disappointing financial results followed by the predictable bloodbath on it stock prices, is anycase troubling the parent company with shareholder and investor hassles. It is said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost over $ 11 billion in a single day as the company's valuation dropped on the stock markets- by almost a $ 677 Billion this year. This has resulted in the ouster of Meta from the list of the world's largest 20 companies. Having lost 70% of its share price this year alone, Meta has one thing perhaps to hold on to - its tech and its vision for the future. Unless that is something that the company can hold on to, keeping at least its users happy, these are troubled times ahead.
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