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(Updated outage details and added Instagram's response in paragraphs 1-3)
Meta-owner company META.O Instagram said its services were back online after thousands of users experienced technical problems accessing its platform on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
At the height of the outage, which began around 12:50 p.m. (French time), more than 100,000 incidents were reported on Facebook and nearly 70,000 on Instagram.
The number of reports increased to over 1,000 for both apps as of 6 p.m. ET.
Downdetector's figures are based on reports submitted by users. The actual number of affected users may vary.
Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on X that they were encountering an error indicating “something went wrong” and that Meta was working to fix it.
Earlier this year, a technical glitch led to an outage that affected hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users around the world for more than two years.
The platforms faced another outage in October , but services were largely restored within an hour.
