Oct 31 (Reuters) - Instagram said on Monday it had fixed a software bug that prevented thousands of users from accessing the photo-sharing platform for about eight hours and led to complaints of accounts being suspended."We've resolved this bug now - it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in number of followers," Meta Platforms Inc (META.O)-owned Instagram said in a tweet on Monday.Several Instagram users had tweeted that they were asked for email IDs and phone numbers to access their suspended account.From over 7,500 reports at 10:09 ET on outage-tracking website Downdetector, the number of user reports declined to nearly 500 around 6 PM ET.Downdetector collates status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform."