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Some users said they could not access the social media app and had been notified that their accounts were suspended.

“I have a lot of friends who have small children, and they live for Halloween,” she said. When trying to follow the appeal process, users were logged out of their accounts and unable to log back in, they reported on Twitter and other sites. This month, it reported that [its profits had slumped](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/technology/meta-facebook-q3-earnings.html) 52 percent from a year earlier. “It’s a big concern of mine, not being able to get back in,” he said. [DownDetector.com](https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/), where users can report outages, showed that reports of an issue started around 9 a.m. “We’re looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience,” the company said.

Instagram is looking into an issue that has prevented thousands of its users from accessing the photo-sharing platform, with several of them complaining ...

At 11:13 ET, nearly 3,000 users were affected, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Several Instagram users have tweeted that the application asked for email id and phone number to access their suspended account. Oct 31 (Reuters) - Instagram is looking into an issue that has prevented thousands of its users from accessing the photo-sharing platform, with several of them complaining about their accounts being suspended.

Just a few days after the most used messaging network in the world, WhatsApp, suffered a global crash, Instagram has now suffered the same problem.

[the most used messaging network in the world, WhatsApp, suffered a global crash](https://www.marca.com/en/technology/2022/10/25/6357931d22601d58178b459b.html), Instagram has now suffered the same problem. To recover the account, the social network gives the person 30 days to appeal the decision. [The best WhatsApp alternatives to use following the messaging app's global outage](https://www.marca.com/en/technology/2022/10/25/6357a7c622601d4d428b45bc.html)

Disruption comes less than a week after multi-hour outage at WhatsApp, also owned by Instagram's parent company, Meta.

Although the error was swiftly uncovered and reversed, it took many hours for the wider web to update and acknowledge that Meta’s servers did in fact exist. “We’re looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience.” Users began reporting problems at about 1300 GMT, turning to other social networks to post baffled screenshots of the ban notifications.

If you woke up to find that your Instagram account was randomly suspended this morning, you're not alone.

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