March 20 (Reuters) - Reports of an Instagram outage in

the U.S. on Thursday evening dropped significantly, according to

outage tracking website Downdetector.com, indicating that the

issue has largely been resolved for many users.

As of 8:34 p.m. ET, there were only 429 incidents reported,

down from 19,431 earlier, according to the website that tracks

outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources.

Instagram owner Meta did not immediately respond to

a Reuters' request for comment.

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

so the actual number of affected users may differ.