March 6 (Reuters) - Microsoft's ( MSFT ) LinkedIn said

on Wednesday it was back up after a brief outage that had

impacted thousands of users.

At one point during the day there were more than 48,000

reports of outages related to the business-focused social

network in the U.S., according to outage tracking website

Downdetector.com.

LinkedIn previously said on Wednesday that some users may be

experiencing issues and that it was investigating.

Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram saw a more than two-hour

long outage on Tuesday that was caused by a technical issue and

impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.