WhatsApp is back after an almost two-hour-long outage
Finally, WhatsApp is back after an almost two-hour-long outage. The service went down for users across several parts of the world. users reported that they are not able to make calls or send messages on the Facebook-owned messaging platform. Some users in India also reported trouble while sending images and videos.
WhatsApp is down for users in India|Twitter flooded with memes
New Delhi: Messaging service WhatsApp isn’t working since just after noon over the globe in what is being seen as its biggest blackout ever. As per reports, users are not being able to send or get messages on the messaging platform. Whereas numerous are busy trying to make the app work, microblogging aficionados were the ones furiously typing out jokes and memes and those were the best.
Noticeable online tool Down Detector began noticing unusually high “issue reports” at 12.07 pm and had recorded thousands of such reports by 1 pm in India, WhatsApp’sbiggest market by user base. Most reports were about messages not going through, at 69 percent, whereas others reported server disconnection and the app smashing inside and out.
WhatsApp Web moreover shows up to be affected by the outage and is ready to confirm that the app’s web client is also unable to connect to the WhatsApp servers, suggesting a server-level outage, and not one that only affects the Android and iOS apps. Anybody attempting to use WhatsApp Web will be welcomed to a blunder message just like the one seen below.
