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Meta's Facebook, Instagram back up for most users in US after outage, Downdetector shows

Published 10/14/2024, 01:57 PM
Updated 10/14/2024, 02:41 PM
© Reuters. A man walks past a logo of mobile application Instagram, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/ File Photo
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(Reuters) -Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted thousands in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

At its peak around 1:35 p.m. ET, there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 5,000 reports of issues with Instagram, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

The number of outages have come down to around 450 for Instagram and 659 for Facebook since then, Downdetector showed, as of 2:09 p.m. ET.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

© Reuters. A man walks past a logo of mobile application Instagram, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/ File Photo

Early this year, hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours by an outage that was caused by a technical issue.

There were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram at the peak of the outage, according to Downdetector.

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