WhatsApp suffers massive outage
Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp faced a major outage earlier today, when the app went down for almost two hours, leaving millions of WhatsApp users across the globe unable to send or receive messages.
WhatsApp Web, the apps web client which is used by many on their desktops and laptops, was also hit by the outage, but services for the web client have also now been restored. During the outage, anyone trying to use the client was met with a connectivity error.
Several users also reported that they thought there was a problem with their internet connection before checking on Twitter that WhatsApp's services were down.
The outage affected both personal chats as well as group chats. DownDetector also confirmed that WhatsApp was not working for many users across multiple regions. A Meta spokesperson said, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we're working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”
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