Instagram down for thousands of users - Downdetector

FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

(Reuters) - Meta Platform's Instagram was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

More than 27,000 users were having trouble accessing the social network, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Meta did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.

(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; editing by Eileen Soreng)