Many Instagram users were baffled when scrolling through the platform and seeing their number of likes on posts replaced with the phrase “and others” on Tuesday 2 March.
Within an hour of the major change, Instagram began to trend on Twitter as people were questioning if this was the permanent feature that the platform had previously announced.
Everyone: “Did Instagram just take away your likes?”
Me: “I still am waiting for chronological order to come back” pic.twitter.com/bJFCr4LB9x— Katie Moseng (@katiemoseng) March 3, 2021
However, this was just a mishap that apparently occurred due to the platform unintentionally adding more people to the test which was actually a bug in the system.