Oct 14 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' ( META ) Facebook and

Instagram were largely restored for most users after an outage

that impacted thousands in the U.S. on Monday, according to

outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

At its peak around 1:35 p.m. ET, there were more than 12,000

incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over

5,000 reports of issues with Instagram, according to

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports

from a number of sources.

The number of outages have come down to around 450 for

Instagram and 659 for Facebook since then, Downdetector showed,

as of 2:09 p.m. ET.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.

The actual number of affected users may vary.

Meta Platforms ( META ) did not respond to a Reuters request for

comment.

Early this year, hundreds of thousands of Facebook and

Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours

by an outage that was caused by a technical issue.

There were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for

Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram at the peak of the

outage, according to Downdetector.