The outburst
Many people expressed their anger and disappointment on Twitter. A user wrote, “@instagram what is going on? My account literally got suspended for no reason I did not violate any community guidelines, and when I try to verify the code it’s just giving me a loading error. Is anybody else having this problem? #instagramdown #instagram.” Suggested read: 7 Tried and Tested Methods to Fix Instagram Music Not Working
Affected number of users
DownDetector, the real-time online outage tracker showed a surge in issues where around 7500 Instagram users were impacted. Many more people may have been affected which has not been reported. This happened just after a few days when another Meta-owned platform, WhatsApp, suffered an enormous outage. Watch this YouTube video:
Issue resolved
On Monday itself Instagram later tweeted, “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.” This means the issue had been resolved after many people struggled to log in for eight hours. Suggested read: How to Hide Likes or Views on Instagram? Know About the New Feature
How people accessed their accounts?
An Instagram spokesperson did not comment on the error message that indicated the suspension of the account. Several users tweeted saying that they were asked to provide their phone number or email ID to access the account.
