Instagram account suspended

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.

Floods of users on Twitter reported having their account suspended. There were more than 7,000 reports of difficulties with the photo-sharing app as of 10:19 ...

Please check your username and try again.” People uploaded screenshots of the message that appears when they try to log in. Floods of users on Twitter reported having their account suspended.

Thousands of Instagram users reported being locked out of their accounts Monday morning, with some saying their accounts had been suspended without warning ...

The outage may be affecting a much larger number of users than those who reported issues with the app. Others reported that their number of followers had dropped, presumably because those accounts were locked. Multiple users tweeted that the application had asked for their email and phone number to get the suspended account to work again.

A flood of users on Twitter shared that they were unable to access their personal or business Instagram accounts, many using the hashtag #instagramdown.

She said her trust with Instagram has been “100 per cent” lessened since this outage. Loker said she had to rely on Twitter to find out the extent of the situation and would have preferred if Instagram emailed users to let them know it was a system-wide issue. Instagram is owned by Meta, formerly known as Facebook. “If someone sees my business, hears (about) my business, or gets a business card, usually they’ll go straight to the Instagram page and that will be where they look to see (what) kind of work I do, what services I offer, (what) kind of the quality of my work as well,” she said. The cause of the bug was still unclear as of Monday evening, and even after Instagram had given the all-clear, many Twitter users were responding to their announcement, saying that their accounts still weren’t working. A flood of users on Twitter shared that they were unable to access their personal or business Instagram accounts, many using the hashtag #instagramdown.