SAN FRANCISCO, United States — An Instagram outage on Thursday (early Friday Manila time) left users of the Facebook-owned social network flocking to Twitter to vent frustration. The website DownDetector.com showed a spike in reports of Instagram being unavailable in the afternoon, nearly hitting 54,000 before diving back down. Meanwhile, some gamers trying to access the PlayStation network on Thursday were also met with error messages. Thank you for your patience as we investigate," the official Ask PlayStation Twitter account said. According to DownDetector.com, the outages were concentrated in northern Europe and Britain, as well as in several parts of the United States and Brazil.

Source: Philippine Star June 14, 2019 01:07 UTC