Outtages as in you can’t send messages or images sometimes, or your feed won’t reload, etc.
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Social media apps are coded by software engineers, who are human. Humans make errors – an overlooked bug in the code, or maybe a bad configuration. This is probably the most common cause of outages, especially with Instagram which runs on Facebook’s infrastructure. But for other sites, things like too much traffic (think Reddit’s hug of death) or downstream dependencies being down can also be the cause.
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