Aug 2 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Monday some users were facing glitches with its platform and the social media company was working on a fix.

Reports by users showed nearly 6,000 issues on Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

"Is #instagramdown for you? We're working on it! We know that some people are currently having issues, and we're fixing it ASAP," Instagram tweeted https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/1422307429551808512.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users. (Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)