{"id":1239832,"date":"2022-10-31T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/instagram-is-giving-twitter-a-run-for-its-money-as-the-most-chaotic-social-network-today\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:12:52","slug":"instagram-is-giving-twitter-a-run-for-its-money-as-the-most-chaotic-social-network-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/instagram-is-giving-twitter-a-run-for-its-money-as-the-most-chaotic-social-network-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is giving Twitter a run for its money as the most chaotic social network today \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">If you woke up to find that your Instagram account was randomly suspended this morning, you\u2019re not alone. A vast number of users have reported that they are unable to access their accounts and are being told that their account has been locked. The Meta-owned social network has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/instagramcomms\/status\/1587085563794018305?s=46&amp;t=JxG9iLeIQf81OHpfMDES6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged the issue<\/a> and says it\u2019s looking into the widespread outage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account,\u201d Instagram\u2019s communications team said in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/instagramcomms\/status\/1587085563794018305?s=46&amp;t=JxG9iLeIQf81OHpfMDES6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019re looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account. We\u2019re looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/instagramdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#instagramdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InstagramComms\/status\/1587085563794018305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The issue appears to be a glitch of some sort, as opposed to a mass banning of accounts. However, the widespread issue is leading to a lot of confusion, as many users have been told by they app that they had broken its rules. Instagram users are also seeing their follower counts decrease, likely due to a vast number of accounts being suspended.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the issue began at around 8:30 a.m. EDT\/5:30 a.m. PDT, according to reports posted on third-party web monitoring service\u00a0Downdetector. At the time of writing, more than 4,000 reports have been logged on the website.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bayareawriter\/status\/1587091536835141633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ann Azevedo<\/a> is among the thousands of users who have been erroneously suspended from the social network. Users who are unable to access the service are seeing a message notifying them that they have \u201c30 days remaining to disagree with this decision.\u201d Instagram hasn\u2019t said what users should do in this case.<\/p>\n<p> has reached out to Instagram to learn more about the widespread issue and we will update this article once we receive a response.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you woke up to find that your Instagram account was randomly suspended this morning, you\u2019re not alone. A vast number of users have reported that they are unable to access their accounts and are being told that their account has been locked. The Meta-owned social network has acknowledged the issue and says it\u2019s looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}