Meta's Instagram back up for users in US, Downdetector shows


FILE PHOTO: A logo of mobile application Instagram is seen on a mobile phone, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

(Reuters) -An Instagram outage that affected thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday had eased, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

As of 12:10 p.m. ET, there were 849 incidents compared with 16,747 reports earlier, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.

Instagram parent Meta Platforms did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage.

(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Sahal Muhammed and Mohammed Safi Shamsi)

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