Social network, sudden down while we were watching Sanremo

While we were all intent on watching the second evening of Sanremo, the most popular social networks and platforms in the world stopped working. For no clear reason Twitter, Facebook, Instagram And YouTube they started to give problems with some of the basic functionality suddenly and at the same time. The first reports came on Twitter, where users reported receiving a message informing them that they had reached their “limit of tweets” daily. To relieve strain on its backend, the fixed platform up to 2,400 shareable tweets from one account, but clearly no one tweets that much. And, in any case, none of the users who received the error message had done so. In fact, someone hadn’t shared anything on the app yet.

NetBlocks, an organization that tracks web outages globally, also confirmed user reports. “Twitter is experiencing international outages affecting its website, mobile app, and features, including posting and retweeting”, tweeted NetBlocks relaunching the hashtag #TwitterDown. In response, Twitter apologized for the inconvenience, and stated that it was “working to fix the problem”. Soon, however, the first ones arrive reports on Facebook and Instagramwith users reporting that they were unable to share Stories or send messages via Messenger.

And in order not to miss anything – always while we were all glued to the TV for Paola and Chiara’s performance – some YouTube users reported that they were unable to reach the home page of the platform, sadly greeted by the message: “Something went wrong. Please try again”. And although the problem was not widespread, YouTube has made it known that it was “examiningwhatever it was that was upsetting the user experience. Yet as soon as people realized that something was wrong on social platforms, Twitter has begun to populate with memes, conspiracy theories and ironic jokes of all kinds. All this aside, the causes of the problem are not yet clear.