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Instagram outage - views from small business owners

ended 02. September 2021

Got any thoughts on the Instagram outage today? Could be practical tips, coping strategies, or passing comment about the abject reliance of humanity on social media platforms to communicate, some would say exist.

3 responses from the Newspage community

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Kate Allen
Owner at Finest Stays
"I’m an utterly outraged Mother Hen. With 11k followers we had in our clutches a golden egg. Sadly our cunning plan to use Instagram to resell cancelled holidays at the last minute has been scrambled. Anyone fancy a holiday in Salcombe? I’ll throw in some quails eggs…"
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Craig Bunting
Co-founder at BEAR
"An outage on the day I ventured from the safety of the Midlands to central London! I stood, lost, with no one influencing where I eat or drink. Then I looked up, and there was a whole world outside of my phone, in front of me to simply explore. It was life, but not as most of us now know it."
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Victoria Vickery
Founder & Managing Director at All Star Marketing Club
"While Instagram is now a great platform for winning new business, especially for small and micro business owners, you can't just rely on social media. If businesses have been impacted by the Instagram outage then, quite simply, they don't have a good enough marketing system in place, and have their eggs in too few baskets."