Jan 15 (Reuters) - Reports of an Instagram outage in the

U.S. on Wednesday morning dropped significantly,

Downdetector.com showed, in a sign that the issue has been

largely resolved for many users.

As of 9:32 a.m. ET, there were only 619 incidents compared

with 11,255 reports earlier in the day, according to the

website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a

several sources.

Instagram-owner Meta did not respond to a Reuters

request for comment.

Last year, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms faced

disruptions on several occasions, including a global outage in

March.

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

The actual number of affected users may vary.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru)