(Reuters) -Facebook Inc's Instagram stated on Monday it's miles trying out a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly at the picture-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant's services.
The test will run in the United States and will pass on for some months, Instagram said in a weblog publish.(https://bit.Ly/3oRjLwM)
On Oct.4, a six-hour long outage avoided the agency's 3.Five billion customers from having access to its social media and messaging services, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
Earlier on Monday, many customers faced issues with Instagram, according to consumer reviews on internet monitoring organization Downdetector.
The corporation is also making plans to roll out a function with a view to help making it simpler for people to understand whether or not their account is at risk of being disabled.
The social media massive, which has been the center of memes and jokes on Twitter following the outages, is also grappling with former employee became whistleblower Frances Haugen's accusation that the agency again and again prioritized earnings over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.
Haugen, who provided the documents that underpinned a Wall Street Journal investigation and a Senate hearing on Instagram's damage to teen women, has agreed to fulfill with Facebook's oversight board inside the coming weeks to quick them approximately what she discovered even as operating on the corporation.
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