As protests intensify in Egypt, the country's government has reportedly banned more communication platforms, including Facebook and BlackBerry Internet Service.

Although neither ban has been confirmed, both services are inaccessible, according to buzz on Twitter.

"We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning," a Facebook spokesperson told PCMag.

TechCrunch reported that it was unclear if all BlackBerry Internet services were blocked in Egypt. Some people could still use apps, the blog said.

Twitter has been blocked in the country for a few days now, the company confirmed Wednesday.

Facebook has been reported inaccessible 86 times in Egypt, according to The Herdict Report, a Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society project that monitors the status of the Web around the world. Outage reports started on Jan. 26.

"From what we know about Egypt, filtering is done at the ISP level, which explains the sporadic reports of inaccessibility we've received," Laura Miyakawa, Herdict's project manager, said in a blog post. "Coupled with reports from Egyptians on Twitter, we're able to say that some degree of filtering has been happening, but we need more reports to make a strong determination."

These reports have coincided with mounting demonstrations in Egypt, many of which were organized via social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Thousands poured into the streets of Cairo starting Tuesday to protest failing economic policies, government corruption, and to call for an end of the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.

Social networks have also played an important role in the uprising in Tunisia that ousted autocratic President Zine el-Albidine Ben Ali earlier this month. Additionally, Twitter was an integral part of an uprising in Iran last year.