Investing.com -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META )'s photo-sharing app, Instagram, experienced a service disruption on Wednesday morning, affecting thousands of users across the United States.

By 9:06 a.m. ET, over 10,000 incidents of people having trouble with the platform had been reported, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which monitors service disruptions by gathering status reports from various sources, noted this significant number of issue reports.

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