Many Instagram users report app not working days after major outage
Instagram appeared to be out of action again for many users on Friday, just days after a major outage.
A company spokesperson for Facebook, which owns the app, told The Independent: “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Online website tracker Down Detector showed a major spike in complaints in the afternoon, as many took to Twitter to complain about access difficulties.
instagram’s down AGAIN 🤯 maybe if they stopped making so many changes no one asked for the app wouldn’t break on a weekly basis but idk that’s just my opinion 🙃
— James Charles (@jamescharles) October 8, 2021
Many voiced frustration with the app, as the outage came hot on the heels of Monday’s social media crisis, when WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down for more than six hours.
The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – stopped working shortly before 5pm UK time on Monday.
Facebook’s largest outage in history was caused by a wrong command that resulted in what the social media giant said was “an error of our own making”.
“We’ve done extensive work hardening our systems to prevent unauthorised access, and it was interesting to see how that hardening slowed us down as we tried to recover from an outage caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making,” said the new post published on Tuesday.
