Instagram down for thousands of users: Report

Late last year, there was a nearly 6-hour long disruption in Meta, which kept WhatsApp and Instagram out of reach.

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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.

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

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.

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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