Instagram blocks the accounts of some users due to a failure that the company is already investigating

31 Oct. (Portaltic/EP) –

Instagram has suffered a general outage of its service, which has generated problems when logging in or using the application itself and which has resulted in thousands of people being affected, some of them informed that their accounts have been suspended.

Is social network would have registered the first problems around 2:00 p.m. (local time) and the highest peak of this fall would have been reported around 3:10 p.m., as indicated Down detector.

According to this platform, the incidents most reported by those affected have been failed attempts to Login (72 percent of all complaints), of application launch (17 percent) and refreshment or load (12 percent).

Several users have also reported these issues by sharing their screenshots via Twitterwhere notifications received have multipliedwhich mean that the accounts have been blocked.

“We have suspended your account on October 31, 2022. You have 30 days to challenge this decision.” can be read in these notifications, in which it is detailed that the temporary closure of the accounts is due to the fact that said user does not follow the community norms.

Likewise, it is indicated that in the event that Instagram cannot confirm the account, it will permanently deactivate it and that, within that period of one month, no one can view the account in question. nor use it.

For its part, Instagram has confirmed this problem logged in the accounts of several users and has announced that it is investigating what could have happened, through its Twitter account.