WHATSAPP IS BACK, AFTER MAJOR OUTAGE

Tue 25 October 2022:

WhatsApp services are back online and the app should start working for users soon if it hasn’t already. WhatsApp is now working for the Android and iOS apps as well as via WhatsApp Web. Note that some users report that services are still not working on WhatsApp Web, but your phone app should be up and running.

WhatsApp, the popular instant communication app owned by Meta that is used by many for quick texting faced a major outage earlier today, when the app went down for almost two hours. This left millions of WhatsApp users across the globe unable to send or receive messages.

Many users have complained on social media about being unable to send or receive messages. WhatsApp has approximately two billion active users worldwide.

The company said it was working on bringing it back up. “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,” said a spokesperson of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram besides WhatsApp.

The outage affected both personal chats as well as group chats. Outage detection website DownDetector also confirmed that WhatsApp was not working for many users across multiple regions.

WhatsApp is down for thousands, with over 20,000 crash reports suggesting a major outage. (Image Source: DownDetector)

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 the error.

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