Instagram crashed? Brazilians reported app instability on Wednesday – 11/03/2021

Life is not easy for those who use Meta apps. This Wednesday (3), For the second time in less than a monthInstagram has experienced instability in Brazil and other parts of the world. After about 4 hours the issue was resolved.

Reports in social networks indicate that Application Instagram for Android and iOS took longer than usual to update the feed. There are also complaints of problems sending direct messages (DMs). The issues seemed to affect only a portion of the users, not all of them.

A spokesperson for Meta, which owns Instagram, confirmed the instability. “We are aware that some people are experiencing issues accessing Messenger, Workplace Chat and Instagram Direct. We are working to get everything back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” the company said in a note sent out. tilt.

At around 4pm (GMT), Instagram was already one of the most talked about topics on Twitter. On the Downdetector website, which records complaints from users with online services, there were more than 1,000 complaints around the same time.

Instagram itself confirmed that the app was having problems with its Twitter PR profile. At around 20:00 (GMT), the company used Twitter again to warn that the instability was over. “The issue has been fixed, so if you’ve had issues with DMs before, you should be fine now,” the company wrote.

No early OctoberInstagram also experienced two hours of instability, along with Facebook social networking site it’s the The WhatsApp, after changes in the internal settings of the Meta team (at that time the company was still called Facebook).

Days ago, at the end of September, the three orders suffered from a global dimming that lasted more than seven hours. But this time, it seems that the problem is concentrated in only one of the applications and does not prevent it from working completely, but only partially.