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01-26-2018, 09:50 PM
Here's why your Instagram and Facebook feeds are looking bare this morning
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Were your Facebook and Instagram feeds looking pretty bare this morning? Fear not, you still have friends. The real reason was actually a massive global outage on Instagram and Facebook which hit the social networks late Thursday.*
Per (http://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/) DownDetector, the Facebook outage affected users in the U.S., UK, Mexico and parts of South America, with users reporting that they were unable to access the site for hoursAccording (https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/01/25/facebook-instagram-many-users/) to TNW, the issue began around 1pm ET (6pm GMT).*
SEE ALSO: I'm a secret Slack lurker and it's ruining my time off (http://mashable.com/2017/12/15/secret-slack-lurking-fomo/)
Facebook users—including publishers—were unable to post anything to the site during the outage, which might explain why your feed is looking pretty sparse this morning.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/01/26/instagram-facebook-outage/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (https://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (https://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Outage (https://mashable.com/category/outage/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Culture (https://mashable.com/culture/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Iglh9wMhP2Q
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Were your Facebook and Instagram feeds looking pretty bare this morning? Fear not, you still have friends. The real reason was actually a massive global outage on Instagram and Facebook which hit the social networks late Thursday.*
Per (http://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/) DownDetector, the Facebook outage affected users in the U.S., UK, Mexico and parts of South America, with users reporting that they were unable to access the site for hoursAccording (https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/01/25/facebook-instagram-many-users/) to TNW, the issue began around 1pm ET (6pm GMT).*
SEE ALSO: I'm a secret Slack lurker and it's ruining my time off (http://mashable.com/2017/12/15/secret-slack-lurking-fomo/)
Facebook users—including publishers—were unable to post anything to the site during the outage, which might explain why your feed is looking pretty sparse this morning.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/01/26/instagram-facebook-outage/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (https://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (https://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Outage (https://mashable.com/category/outage/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Culture (https://mashable.com/culture/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Iglh9wMhP2Q