Facebook outage: Instagram testing a feature that will alert you to outages within the app

of facebook instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users about outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, two days after the social media giant’s services were disrupted last week. The trial will run in the United States and last a few months, Instagram posted a . said in blog post. On October 4, a six-hour-long outage blocked the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

Earlier on Monday, several users faced problems on Instagram, according to user reports on the web monitoring group Downdetector. The company is also planning to introduce a feature that will make it easier for people to know if their account is at risk of becoming inactive. The social media giant, which has been a hotbed of memes and jokes Twitter Following the outage, Frances Hogen, a former employee-turned-whistleblower, is also grappling with allegations that the company has prioritized profit over curbing repeated hate speech and misinformation.