Facebook and Instagram experience big Thanksgiving outages

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If you were trying to share Thanksgiving photos today you may have noticed that both Facebook and Instagram have been suffering intermittent outages. Just like you might feel after your third helping of turkey and stuffing: they’re down, but not quite out.

Neither Facebook nor Instagram have acknowledged the issue, but there are widespread reports of problems right across the globe. Users say they’re unable to post to Facebook or view stories on Instagram (where outages seem to be worst), and there have been some reports of problems with Messenger, too.

According to DownDetector, Instagram seems to be suffering the worst in central Europe, with #InstagramDown trending on Twitter in the UK, while Facebook users are reporting outages...

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