Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down? World's biggest social networks suffer outages and stop loading images
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered major outages today, with reports indicating that images and videos were not loading, which impacted users in the U.S. and Europe.
DownDetector, a platform which tracks website issues in real-time, recorded a huge spike in problems across some of the biggest social networking platforms in the world. A slew of users took to Twitter to voice their frustrations with the bugs and glitches—and it's not the first major outage this week.
"Can't view any pictures on Messenger and I can't attach or see any pics in anything on my news feed, comments and posts," one person complained on DownDetector, discussing Facebook. Another person added:"No pictures are loading, and I can't generate preview pictures on links."the company was working to resolve the issues."We're aware that some people are currently having trouble uploading images, videos and other files on our apps.
For a website dedicated to image-sharing, Instagram was left unusable according to some comments."Can't see certain posts or post anything new! ANNOYING! Please fix this!" one user fumed. Another added:"Not working. Loaded the image, was available for five minutes, people commented and then 'can't see... can't load' and cannot see posts of other people.
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