Meta Platforms says services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram have been restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users.
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At one point, nearly 20,000 users said they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta's messaging service WhatsApp, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
"Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible," Meta said earlier on its status page.
"We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our products. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience."
Outage reports had come down to less than 500 as of 6.30pm Eastern US time on Friday according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Issues with Meta's Ads Manager, the advertising tool that lets brands buy and create Facebook ads, were also resolved, the company said.
Australian Associated Press
