Instagram back up after global outage affecting thousands of users
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More than 180,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram at the peak of the outage.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Meta Platform’s Instagram was back up for most users, the company said on Sunday, after a technical issue that disrupted services to thousands of people had been resolved.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted,” a Meta spokesman told Reuters.
The company did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed more than 100,000 incidents in the United States, 24,000 in Canada and over 56,000 incidents in Britain.
More than 180,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram at the peak of the outage.
Instagram was down for users on Sunday from around 9.45pm GMT (5.45am Singapore time on Monday), according to Downdetector.com. The number of outages eased to slightly more than 7,000 reports as at 8.30am on Monday.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users. REUTERS
