March 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' ( META ) Facebook

was largely back up after an outage that affected thousands of

users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com.

At its peak, there were more than 11,000 reports of issues with

the social media platform in the U.S., before coming down to

about 1,200 as of 06:11 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from

a number of sources, including user-submitted reports, and the

actual number of affected users may vary.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for

comment on what caused the outage.

Separately, the company's status page indicated high disruptions

on Facebook Ads Manager, a tool for creating, managing and

analyzing advertising campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and

other platforms.