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March 20 (Reuters) – Reports of an Instagram outage in the U.S. on Thursday evening dropped significantly, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, indicating that the issue has largely been resolved for many users.
As of 8:34 p.m. ET, there were only 429 incidents reported, down from 19,431 earlier, according to the website that tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources.
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Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports, so the actual number of affected users may differ.
Reporting by Pretish M J in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips
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