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　　local time Monday, Instagram said it had fixed a software bug that prevented thousands of users from accessing the photo-sharing platform for about eight hours and caused accounts to be blocked. closed complaint.

　　"We've now fixed the bug - which was causing people around the world to lose access to their accounts and causing some temporary changes in the number of followers," Instagram, which is owned by Meta Platforms, said in a tweet on Monday.

　　An Instagram spokesperson did not comment on the account suspension. Several Instagram users tweeted that they were being asked to provide email IDs and phone numbers to access the frozen accounts.

　　There were more than 7,500 user reports on outage tracking website Downdetector at 10:09 ET, and around 6:00 pm ET, the number of user reports dropped to nearly 500.

　　Downdetector collates status reports from multiple sources, including bugs submitted by users on its platform. This outage may affect more users. Shares in Meta closed down 6.1% against the backdrop of a broader stock market decline.