(Reuters) -Reports of an Instagram outage in the U.S. on Wednesday morning dropped significantly, Downdetector.com showed, in a sign that the issue has been largely resolved for many users. As of 9:32 a.m. ET, there were only 619 incidents compared with 11,255 reports earlier in the day, according to the website that tracks outages by […]
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Meta’s Instagram outage incidents in US drop significantly, Downdetector shows
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(Reuters) -Reports of an Instagram outage in the U.S. on Wednesday morning dropped significantly, Downdetector.com showed, in a sign that the issue has been largely resolved for many users.
As of 9:32 a.m. ET, there were only 619 incidents compared with 11,255 reports earlier in the day, according to the website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a several sources.
Instagram-owner Meta did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Last year, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms faced disruptions on several occasions, including a global outage in March.
Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.
(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru)