Tech Talk: Instagram testing feature to notify users of outage or issue inside app – Gulf Digital News

Tech Talk: Instagram testing feature to notify users of outage or issue inside app – Gulf Digital News

Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant's services.

The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months, Instagram said in a blog post.(https://bit.ly/3oRjLwM)

On Oct.4, a six-hour long outage prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.