Meta's social media apps were reportedly down for thousands

Meta Platforms’ social media apps Instagram and Facebook, messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter-rival Threads were all back up after a brief outage affecting thousands of users on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. Also Read: WhatsApp starts testing green dot online indicator for iPhone users

At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700 users faced issues with Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively. Also Read: Telegram faces fresh heat in India, this time over movie piracy

Meta’s newest offering Threads also experienced an outage, with about 470 users reporting problems accessing the app. Also Read: Meta launches Pocket AI app that lets users create mini games with text prompts

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters query on the outages.

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— Reuters