(Reuters) – Meta Platforms’s Instagram was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 5,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the United States at the peak of the outage, Downdetector’s data showed.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
