WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform owned by Meta, suffered the longest outage of the year 2022 on October 25 (Tuesday) before its services were restored for the mobile app, desktop and the web.
Today was the longest ever WhatsApp outage that seemingly began at around 12pm IST and services were restored almost after two hours after 2pm IST.
“We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today. We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience,” Meta spokesperson was quoted by ABP Live as saying.
As per reports on Downdetector.com, over 19,000 users reported on the platform that WhatsApp is down. And going by reports, the issue was not only restricted to India but also affected users globally.
Earlier in the day, a Meta spokesperson had 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.”
#WhatsAppDown was already trending on Twitter, with users taking to the microblogging platform to share their frustrations and hilarious memes.
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As mentioned earlier, this was the first major WhatsApp outage in 2022. The last major outage it saw was also its longest to date — as seen back in October 2021, when WhatsApp (as well as other Meta apps such as Instagram or Facebook) was down for nearly six hours. Going by Downdetector data, the WhatsApp outage this year lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours.
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