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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 11:53 AM Jul 2019

Facebook/WhatsApp/instagram experiencing problems, outages worldwide

Not allowing users to upload photos, video, not displaying photos in profiles.


Users around the world Wednesday are having problems signing into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook is down at the moment, various news outlets and blogs are reporting, and issues include login features as well as photos and other images failing to load property.

With reports surging throughout the system, the tech site Down Detector has received a wave of reports from users in the United States as well as the United Kingdom and Europe. Of those affected, nearly 83 percent of the reports on Facebook said users are experiencing problems with photos loading, while 10 percent reported issues with the Newsfeed.

Loic Venance, AFP via Getty ImagesIn this file photo taken on May 2, 2019 logos of US social network Instagram are displayed on the screen of a computer and a smartphone, in Nantes, western France.About Instagram, Down Detector says almost 90 percent of its reports involved problems with the news feed; for Whatsapp, 74 percent of reports described issues sending or receiving messages.
Users then headed to to Twitter and expressed a wide range of problems with Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp.

“Can’t see any pictures or see stories,” one uses in the Netherlands reported.


https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/03/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp/
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Facebook/WhatsApp/instagram experiencing problems, outages worldwide (Original Post) ehrnst Jul 2019 OP
Same cilla4progress Jul 2019 #1
Yes. I noticed photos are not displaying... targetpractice Jul 2019 #2
I've been having trouble for the past several days. Demit Jul 2019 #3
Facebook and related apps are Crabby Appleton Jul 2019 #4
Found one: ehrnst Jul 2019 #8
Lots of empty boxes BlueIdaho Jul 2019 #5
Yeah, something's not working. Photos and videos are blank pages. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2019 #6
Update: Facebook/whatsapp/instagram user issues worldwide ehrnst Jul 2019 #7
Three guesses what is happening..... pangaia Jul 2019 #9
Just before a fascist military "parade' in DC.... hummm..... pangaia Jul 2019 #10
That is interesting., but it's worldwide apparently. ehrnst Jul 2019 #11
Incels attack! KG Jul 2019 #12
Apparently durablend Jul 2019 #13

targetpractice

(4,919 posts)
2. Yes. I noticed photos are not displaying...
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 11:55 AM
Jul 2019

I get blank boxes with keywords like, "This image may contain: dogs, grass, trees, blue sky"

I've never seen those keywords before... Maybe Facebook has introduced some AI image processing feature that is messing stuff up.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,637 posts)
6. Yeah, something's not working. Photos and videos are blank pages.
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 11:57 AM
Jul 2019

I think it's on their end and I hope they fix it SOON.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
7. Update: Facebook/whatsapp/instagram user issues worldwide
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 11:59 AM
Jul 2019
Users around the world Wednesday are having problems signing into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook is down at the moment, various news outlets and blogs are reporting, and issues include login features as well as photos and other images failing to load property.

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/03/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp/?preview_id=3532662
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