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Instagram down for thousands of users globally: Downdetector

Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.

Reuters

WASHINGTON: Meta Platform's (META.O) Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

More than 46,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the United States at the peak of the outage, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.

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

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