While ChatGPT took two months to hit the 100 million user mark and video-sharing app TikTok took nine months, Instagram itself took two and a half years to reach that mark after its 2010 launch.

Most of the affected users are in the US with others in the UK, India and Australia.

Having led Argentina to their first World Cup in 36 years with victory over France, Messi proceeded to make more history off the pitch with his photo gallery on Instagram, which racked up more than 65 million likes.

West was first locked out of his Instagram by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc on Friday after which he took to Twitter, where he tweeted on Saturday for the first time in two years.

The new service, known as Rossgram, will launch on March 28 and have additional functions such as crowdfunding and paid access for some content, its website says.

The social media company is temporarily allowing posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland.

A major outage hitting all three platforms, which have billions of users, is rare though apps are regularly forced offline by technical problems.

Instagram chief says the project aimed at children, which would have created a parentally-supervised version of the app for youngsters, has been widely misunderstood.

Government legislation in several countries now puts the onus on technology giants to ensure sufficient safeguards to protect children.

Kajang police chief says a remand application will be made today.

New teenage users who sign up to Instagram will also now be encouraged to make their profile private.

Her case has revived debate in France on freedom of speech as well as protection for schoolchildren from online bullying.