Instagram to notify customers of outage or technical concern inside app

Popular photo sharing app Instagram on Monday announced that it is testing a feature to notify customers about frequent outages or technical concerns/glitches straight on the app. The announcement came following days following outages disrupted the services for customers.

In a weblog post, Instagram stated that the test will run in the United States and it will continue for a couple of months. Not a extremely lengthy time ago, on October 4, the world witnessed a six-hour lengthy outage worldwide that beheld the company’s 3.5 billion customers from applying the services and accessing social media and its messaging services. WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger-all 3 have been down.

As per the user reports on Web monitoring group Downdetector, earlier on Monday, a lot of customers faced technical glitches with Instagram. The firm also has plans to bring out a feature that will aid customers know no matter if their account is at threat of receiving disabled.

The social media giant is also grappling with the former employee turned whistleblower Frances Haugen’s accusation. According to her, the firm is repeatedly prioritising profit more than clamping down hate speech and misinformation. Haugen supplied the documents that had a Wall Street Journal investigation and a Senate hearing on Instagram’s harm to teenagers (girls). She is anticipated to meet Facebook’s oversight board in the coming weeks to narrate her knowledge of working in the firm.

Originally appeared on: TheSpuzz