Instagram is testing in-app notifications for service outages

One week after a massive Facebook outage that took all of the social network's apps offline for more than six hours, Instagram says it's testing notifications that will alert users to "temporary issues" like outages or other technical issues. The new alerts would appear in users' Activity Feed, alongside other in-app notifications. The messages could be used to let users know about specific issues, like Story uploads not working, or a more widespread problem, like the two outages last week. Impo...