Instagram, owned by Meta Platform, said that it was back up for most of the users. This came after the social media platform resolved the technical issue that hampered services to thousands of people
"Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted," a Meta spokesperson told a news source.
The number of affected users are undisclosed. Outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed more than 100,000 incidents in the United States, 24,000 in Canada and over 56,000 in Britain.
Over 180,000 users complained regarding accessing Instagram at the peak of the outage.
Instagram was down for some users on Sunday from around 5:45 p.m. EST (2145 GMT), according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The number of outages eased to just over 7,000 reports as of 8:30 p.m. EST.
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