Meta is off to a rough start this week, with thousands of reports pouring in of trouble on Instagram.
a variety of problems. Some said they had attempted to log into their accounts, only to be greeted by a message telling them that their account had been suspended for violating community standards. Other users say they were met with a “user not found” message, as if their account had never existed in the first place. And still others were able to successfully log in but reported seeing their follower counts plummet precipitously for no apparent reason.
Around an hour after the mayhem started, at 10:14 a.m. EST, Instagram put out a statement on Twitter confirming that something unusual was going on:a surge of at least 7,511 reports at the peak of discontent, though the true number is likely higher than that. Gizmodo reached out to Instagram for more details and will update this story if they respond.
Of course, this isn’t the first time—nor likely the last—that Instagram or its parent company Meta suffers an outage. Last year, a took down all of Meta’s platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, effectively erasing the tech giant’s presence from the web for a period of several hours. Clearly this isn’t
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