Thousands of people affected not only on Twitter, but also on Instagram

Last Update: 15 July 2022, 10:36 AM IST

Instagram also suffered an outage for a few hours

Instagram also suffered an outage for a few hours

Thousands of users of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram reported problems with the photosharing application on Thursday, according to downdetector.com.

(Reuters) – Thousands of users of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram reported problems with the photo-sharing application on Thursday, according to downdetector.com.

About 24,000 Instagram users were affected as of 5 p.m. ET, according to outage-tracking website DownDetector, which collates status reports from multiple sources in the United States.

After analyzing the Downdetector.in version, it seems that the user India Also reported the closure of the app from around 1:00 am to 3:00 pm on Friday. Instagram did not share details of the outage and its probable cause.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

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Earlier Thursday, Twitter Inc. had a nearly three-hour outage that affected more than 50,000 users at around 8:15 a.m. ET, according to downdetector.com.

After a few hours the platform was back up and running.

Late last year, there was a nearly six-hour run in Meta that put WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach of billions of users.

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