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Instagram and Facebook are being hit by significant outages on Thanksgiving

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Facebook and Instagram have been hit with significant outages on Thanksgiving, leaving some users are unable to access or use the apps on a major holiday.

Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, tweeted on Thursday: "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook's family of apps, including Instagram.

"We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. #InstagramDown"

Almost 4,000 users reported problems with Instagram Thursday morning, according to outage-tracking website Down Detector.

Almost 600 Faceook users also reported problems.

Facebook's separate Messenger app is also having trouble.

WhatsApp, Facebook's other major product, does not seem to have been affected.

People had been posting on other social media sites, like Twitter, with the hashtag before Instagram confirmed the problems.

Some reported being unable to access the apps, while those who are already logged in were unable to refresh pages or perform any actions like liking or saving posts.

Facebook and Instagram have been experiencing a dramatic increased in service outages over the last year, according to data shared with Business Insider by Down Detector.

In the first half of this year, Instagram's downtime almost doubled compared with the same time period in the beginning of 2018.

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Sinéad Baker is a Military and Defense Correspondent based in Business Insider's London bureau, writing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and NATO actions.Sinéad most often covers soldiers' experiences, military strategy, battlefield developments, weapons systems, the defense industry's response, and the impact on NATO and European security, and geopolitical decisions that surround the Ukraine war. She has reported from NATO’s frontlines and around Europe,  has interviewed multiple prime ministers and defense ministers, has appeared on BBC News and The Guardian's politics podcast, and has been cited by Congressional hearings.Sinéad has also extensively covered US politics and previously led Business Insider's breaking news coverage from London.Sinéad previously completed a master's degree in investigative journalism at City, University of London, and has written for The Guardian, The Observer, and TheJournal.ie. Sinéad is the former editor of the multi-award-winning The University Times in Dublin.Expertise
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