New Delhi: Popular messaging app WhatsApp faced a global outage from the UK to India, with users being not able to send and receive text and video messages for more than an hour.
The services were restored for some users after the unexplained disruption that last over an hour. The resumption of service was confirmed by several users.
WhatsApp’s services across many parts of India and the world were disrupted on Tuesday afternoon as thousands of users were unable to send or receive messages on the Meta-owned platform.
After the snag hit, WhatsApp had said it is working to restore services.
”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,” a Meta company spokesperson said in a statement.
This was not the longest outage. The last longest WhatsApp outage happened on October 5, 2021.
Several social media users across the globe were in for a shock when WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram went kaput on October 5, 2021 evening. Several users had thronged to Twitter to reconfirm whether the issue was with their network or did the Facebook-owned apps really go down.
It took over six hours for Facebook to resolve the issue that the company claimed arose due to a faulty configuration change. According to reports, WhatsApp outage had allegedly affected over 3.5 billion users across the globe.
