Instagram users who regret sending that poorly worded direct message can now breathe a sigh of relief.
Engineers at parent company Meta Platforms Inc. have enabled a feature allowing Instagram users to edit their DMs inside a 15-minute window after hitting the send button, based on the tech behemoth.
Instagram users must press and hold on the sent message — which is able to then prompt a drop-down menu with an “edit” option, based on a blog posting by Meta.
The service may also enable users to decide on up to 3 group or one-on-one chats and “pin” them to the highest of their inbox, based on Meta.
Instagram users will only must swipe left or tap and hold on the chat. Then they will select the “pin” option.
The corporate also announced it would enable Instagram users to activate a “read receipts” option that lets others know that they’ve read their message.
Meta announced the change on Tuesday — the identical day that users worldwide reported outages of its online platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads.
The disruptions began at around 10 a.m. Eastern Time, with many users saying on rival social media platform X that they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.
Two hours later, services appeared to have been restored.
At the height of the outage, there have been greater than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, based on outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing a few of our services. We resolved the difficulty … for everybody who was impacted,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, without elaborating on the difficulty.
Shares of Meta were up 1.5% as of 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday.
The corporate has about 3.19 billion each day energetic users across its family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads.
Its status dashboard earlier showed the appliance programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.
Nonetheless, the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, based on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.
Several employees of Meta said on anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to log in to their internal work systems, which left them wondering in the event that they were laid off, based on posts seen by Reuters.
The outage was among the many top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform’s owner Elon Musk taking a shot at Meta with a post that said: “In case you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”
X itself has faced several disruptions to its service after Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in October 2022, with an outage in December causing issues for greater than 77,000 users in countries from the US to France.
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Instagram users who regret sending that poorly worded direct message can now breathe a sigh of relief.
Engineers at parent company Meta Platforms Inc. have enabled a feature allowing Instagram users to edit their DMs inside a 15-minute window after hitting the send button, based on the tech behemoth.
Instagram users must press and hold on the sent message — which is able to then prompt a drop-down menu with an “edit” option, based on a blog posting by Meta.
The service may also enable users to decide on up to 3 group or one-on-one chats and “pin” them to the highest of their inbox, based on Meta.
Instagram users will only must swipe left or tap and hold on the chat. Then they will select the “pin” option.
The corporate also announced it would enable Instagram users to activate a “read receipts” option that lets others know that they’ve read their message.
Meta announced the change on Tuesday — the identical day that users worldwide reported outages of its online platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads.
The disruptions began at around 10 a.m. Eastern Time, with many users saying on rival social media platform X that they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.
Two hours later, services appeared to have been restored.
At the height of the outage, there have been greater than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, based on outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing a few of our services. We resolved the difficulty … for everybody who was impacted,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, without elaborating on the difficulty.
Shares of Meta were up 1.5% as of 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday.
The corporate has about 3.19 billion each day energetic users across its family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads.
Its status dashboard earlier showed the appliance programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.
Nonetheless, the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, based on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.
Several employees of Meta said on anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to log in to their internal work systems, which left them wondering in the event that they were laid off, based on posts seen by Reuters.
The outage was among the many top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform’s owner Elon Musk taking a shot at Meta with a post that said: “In case you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”
X itself has faced several disruptions to its service after Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in October 2022, with an outage in December causing issues for greater than 77,000 users in countries from the US to France.
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