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Meta Platforms-owned (META.O) Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users were having trouble with Instagram.
Read more: Meta's Facebook, Instagram back up after brief outage
Meta's messaging service, WhatsApp, also had over 1,300 outage reports on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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