June 16 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Friday that services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram were being restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users.
At one point, a total of nearly 20,000 users said they had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Outage reports were down to less than 500 as of 6:30 p.m. ET (2230 GMT), according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collecting status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may affect a larger number of users.
Issues with Meta’s Ads Manager, the advertising tool that allows brands to buy and create Facebook ads, have also been resolved, the company said.
Reporting by Niket Nishant and Samrhitha Arunasalam in Bengaluru; Edited by Maju Samuel