BREAKING: Cristiano #Ronaldo Lost 3 Million #Instagram Followers In 4 Hours—-The most followed person on Instagram appears to have lost three million users during the four-hour outage that hit the social media platform Monday.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who is a Portuguese soccer player, temporarily lost the large number of shortly after the social media platform went down around 9am ET – but has since regained back all his fans.
While the reason for the crash remains unclear, several users reported their accounts being suspended because they ‘didn’t follow its community guidelines’.
Others had also lost followers, which may have been due to the millions of suspended accounts that caused in the removal of follower counts.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who is a Portuguese soccer player, lost about three million followers during the four-hour-long Instagram outage
MailOnline contacted Instagram’s owner Meta for further comment on the cause of the issue, although it did acknowledge it on Twitter.
Just after 10:00am ET, Instagram tweeted: ‘We’re aware that some of you are having issues accessing your Instagram account. We’re looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience.’
MailOnline tried to access the app and did not encounter any issues.
But users who were affected got a message from Instagram saying: ‘We suspended your account on October 31, 2022.
‘There are 30 days remaining to disagree with this decision. Your account doesn’t follow our Community Guidelines.’
Those who clicked to appeal against their suspension were then presented with a mysterious black screen with a loading circle.
‘Can anyone explain?’: MailOnline has contacted Meta, the company that owns Instagram, for comment. Many users took to Twitter to discuss the problems they had
Other users reported losing followers, potentially due to other users on the platform being suspended
Affected users were given the opportunity to appeal against their suspension, but were then presented with a mysterious black screen
Many users took to Twitter to discuss the problems they had been encountering.
One user wrote: ‘Ok soooo my account got banned for no reason, couldn’t appeal it and now my account is gone. & I’m not the only one.’
Another added: ‘My IG acct got suspended just NOW! So many tweets that their acct got suspended too! HELP US INSTAGRAM!’
And one joked: ‘Everyone checking in on Twitter when WhatsApp or Instagram or Facebook is down.’
MailOnline tried to access the app, and did not encounter any issues. However, others took to Twitter to discuss the problems they had been encountering
Another user in West Virginia, in the US, said: ‘Did anyone else’s Instagram just get suspended for no reason? And now Instagram won’t even bother to let you appeal it just gives you an error?’
Meanwhile, a user based in Melbourne, Australia, said: ‘Anyone else’s Instagram just randomly crash after 30 seconds of using the app?’
Instagram is one of several platforms owned by Meta, the firm owned by Mark Zuckerberg, along with WhatsApp and Facebook.
Only last week, WhatsApp experienced a two-hour outage that left users globally unable to send or receive messages.
CREDIT: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
