Facebook Outage Hits Thousands in Minnesota

If you've been trying to login to Facebook and having issues today, you aren't alone.

According to USA Today (and my own experience), Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other Meta features are all being reported by users as either being down or not 100% working.

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How Many People Have Reported Issues With Instagram Today?

A site called Downdetector keeps track of outages and based on the data a few minutes ago, 70,000 people have reported issues with Instagram.

How Many People Have Reported Issues With WhatsApp Today?

One of my newer apps on my phone is WhatsApp. At the moment, 10,000 people have reported issues with this Meta product.

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How Many People Have Reported Issues With Facebook Today?

I can get into Facebook right now on my phone but I can't on my laptop. Sounds like quite a few people are also having issues as over 100,000 have reported a problem.

Things You Can Do While You Wait For Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to Work Again

My screentime on my phone today is going to look AMAZING thanks to NOT being on Facebook and Instagram all day. If you are looking for something to do, here are a few ideas.

10 Things You Now Have Time to Do When You Aren't On Facebook

I love Facebook but realized during the latest outage throughout the country that I now have time to do SO MANY other things! Here's 10 things that I did while Facebook was recently working on the little bug that shut the entire system down throughout the world. You could do these too! Actually, you do just log off now and do these.

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While You Wait, Get Your Name In To Score a $500 Target Gift Card

This may not be what you planned to do today, but you should carve out some extra time to get your name in to score some extra shopping cash for Target. Right now, there is a $500 Target Gift Card that could be yours. Just click here, add your name, and you could have an amazing, guilt-free Target Run in the new year.

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30+ Reasons Why People Still Like Using Facebook

A bunch of people have jumped off the super popular social media platform called Facebook for various reasons but for those that have stayed, why are they still logging in? I asked around and got a bunch of answers from people that live in Minnesota to see why they still have a Facebook account and here's what they said their reason was.

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