As part of trying to restore access to my disabled Instagram account, which I do now only for sport, without a sense of urgency, I received this very unusual error message from Facebook (even though, at the time, I wasn’t “on Facebook,” but rather “on Instagram”). I’ve written my fair share of error messages in my day, but I don’t think I’ve ever achieved this surreal height.
See also You Need To Calm Down.
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Definitely a weird weird
Definitely a weird weird error message. But it makes me wonder if you have some sort of automation running against your account. Any chance you created something at some point and forgot about it?
Maybe see also the 59th
Maybe see also the 59th Street Bridge Song
Whatever happened to "move
Whatever happened to "move fast and break things"?!
This is definitely a weird message though... I get the premise, but the wording is so odd!
Shame on you for speeding on
Shame on you for speeding on the information highway.
See Teresa Wright's Twitter
See Teresa Wright's Twitter thread about this at 9:38 AM today. Someone is targeting local IG accounts.
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