Meta’s Instagram back online for most users after outage, Downdetector shows

Meta’s Instagram back online for most users after outage, Downdetector shows

Meta Platforms’s Instagram appeared to be back online for most users after an outage disrupted services for the photo-sharing platform for more than three hours on Thursday, according to Downdetector.com.

The number of outages has come down to around 400 after more than 5,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram in the United States around 2230 GMT, data from the outage tracking website showed, which also cited that the majority of the reported problems were regarding login issues on the app.

Instagram and Facebook had an outage for more than two hours early in March that was caused by a technical issue, with more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram at its peak.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Downdetector also showed that nearly 15,381 people in India reported that Facebook was suffering an outage, while more than 19,200 users reported a downtime on Instagram.

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