All for a few minutes this evening the major social platforms of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp seem to have serious problems in completing all the classic online upload operations of key elements such as images or videos. Tens of thousands of reports are arriving from all over Italy to the site DownDetector. The problems seem to affect all three Mark Zuckerberg platforms from the inability to send or receive multimedia messages on WhatsApp, in the inability to upload images or stories to Instagram via Facebook posts.
obviously the flood of messages immediately hit Twitter of those who wonder why what is happening, and many irony about the malfunctioning just as usually happens in these cases since those who always use Facebook and Instagram, open Twitter only if the first two do not work. The hashtag #Instagramdown it is among the first places but also #Facebookdown and #WhatsAppdown are.
From Facebook no comment or explanation, for now, on what is happening but it is clear that the emergency situation of the Coronavirus with millions of people at home could have pushed the platforms to an overload that has not held up in the last few minutes. Just Zuckerberg in recent weeks had spoken by releasing comments that his platforms were really overloaded and he was making some news to improve the situation.
We will update the news in case of information regarding the blockage or if the company in charge of the social network will publish some reassuring message on the situation of its product. In the meantime, you can send us reports if you are experiencing problems in the use of the offending social networks.
UPDATE
Applications seem to have returned to normal. The reports have gone to zero and everything seems to be working as usual. No response for the moment from Facebook.