Instagram users who regret sending a poorly worded direct message can now breathe a sigh of relief.
The tech giant says engineers at parent company Metaplatforms have enabled a feature that allows Instagram users to edit their DMs within 15 minutes of hitting the send button.
Instagram users will need to long press on the sent message. Once you do so, you will see a drop-down menu with an “Edit” option. According to Meta’s blog post.
According to Meta, the service will allow users to select up to three group or one-on-one chats and “pin” them to the top of their inbox.
Instagram users can simply swipe left or tap and hold the chat. Then you can select the “Pin” option.
The company also announced that Instagram users will be able to enable a “read receipt” option that lets others know that they have read their messages.
Meta announced the change on Tuesday. On that day, users around the world reported outages of her online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
The chaos began around 10 a.m. ET, with many users saying they were forced off Facebook and Instagram on rival social media platform X and were unable to log in.
Two hours later, service appeared to be restored.
At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 outage reports on Facebook and about 92,000 on Instagram, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
“Earlier today, technical issues made it difficult to access some of our services. We have resolved the issue… for everyone affected,” a Meta spokesperson said. Andy Stone said in a post to X, but did not elaborate on the issue.
Meta stock was up 1.5% as of 1pm ET on Wednesday.
The company’s family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads, has approximately 3.19 billion daily active users.
Its status dashboard previously indicated that WhatsApp Business’ application programming interface was also facing issues.
But the WhatsApp and Threads outages were much smaller, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources, including users.
Several Meta employees said on the anonymous messaging app Blind that they suspected they had been fired after they were unable to log into the company’s work system, according to posts seen by Reuters.
The outage is one of the top trending topics on X (formerly Twitter), with platform owner Elon Musk saying, “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.” He attacked Meta in his post.
X itself has faced several service interruptions since Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform in October 2022, with outages occurring in December and from the US to France. The issue affected more than 77,000 users in several countries.
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