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Instagram fixes bug that triggered hours-long outage

Several Instagram users had tweeted that they were asked for email IDs and phone numbers to access their suspended account.

November 01, 2022 / 06:17 IST
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Instagram said on Monday it had fixed a software bug that prevented thousands of users from accessing the photo-sharing platform for about eight hours and led to complaints of accounts being suspended.

"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," Meta Platforms Inc-owned Instagram said in a tweet on Monday.

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A spokesperson for Instagram did not comment on suspension of accounts.

Reuters
first published: Nov 1, 2022 06:17 am

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