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Instagram faced a global outage on Sunday after a technical glitch was reported, affecting more than 180,000 users worldwide.
According to the Meta Platform Inc., the services were resumed for many users after the issue was resolved.
A Meta spokesperson told the media that “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.”
The company, however, did not disclose the number of affected users. According to Downdetector.com (an outage tracking website), in the United States, more than 100,000 users were unable to access Instagram. More than 24,000 users were affected in Canada while the number was 56,000 in the Britain. So overall, more than 180,000 users reported issues with Instagram on Sunday.
