March 20 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms's ( META ) Instagram

was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Thursday evening,

according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 19,431 incidents of people reporting

issues with the platform, as of 7:25 p.m. ET, according to

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports

from a number of sources.