Users’ Instagram accounts have been restored following last night’s brief outage. The business claimed to have resolved the problem that resulted in the sudden temporary suspension of user accounts. The Meta-owned business has not specified what brought about the problem. Notably, WhatsApp, Instagram’s sibling, experienced a significant outage last week in India and across the globe.
What happened during the Instagram outage?
At 6:30 PM IST yesterday, users began to notice troubles with Instagram. Users from India and other countries were impacted, and they complained of a puzzling account suspension mistake. A member of India Today Tech encountered the same problem and saw that, even clicking on “Disagree with decision,” Instagram did not successfully restore the account. Users have the option to override Instagram’s account suspension decision.
The outage tracker, Downdector, indicated that some Instagram users in India and other nations were having login troubles, while others were having issues with “server connections.”
However, the business later acknowledged that a bug was at blame, and Instagram did not proactively suspend any accounts. Instagram stated in a tweet: “We’ve fixed the bug that was preventing users from all around the world from accessing their accounts and temporarily changing the number of followers for some users. Sorry”.
What caused the Instagram error?
Users’ accounts were mysteriously suspended last night, although Meta has not stated why.
WhatsApp, Meta’s instant messaging service, meanwhile, experienced a significant outage last week in India and other nations. The app and the web client were down due to the outage for about two hours. Later, the business explained that “configuration changes on the backbone routers” were the cause of WhatsApp’s outage.
Make sure you’re using the most recent version of the app if consumers are still having problems with it. It can also be beneficial to force the app to close or uninstall it.