WhatsApp suffers brief outage, causes massive freakout among users

Jan 01, 2016, 00:07
WhatsApp suffers brief outage, causes massive freakout among users

If you're about to send a New Year message to your friend, you might need to spend some bucks on SMS as WhatsApp is down.

Of course, certain times of year are busier for messaging than others, like trying to get New Year's Eve celebrations organized.

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WhatsApp

The worldwide chat app got silent for many users at about 9:30 a.m. EST. A satellite map that tracks WhatsApp shows a large area in Europe that is affected by the outage, and the small pockets along the eastern US where the service is down.

WhatsApp's troubles follow a similar issue suffered by the BBC, after the broadcaster's websites were brought offline.

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In September WhatsApp announced that they had become the world's most widely used instant messaging client with more than 900 million monthly active users.

Update: It looks like WhatsApp service is back online after a couple of hours of disruption.

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The company, which is owned by Facebook Inc, had earlier said it had completely restored the service and apologised to users for the disruption.

The outage began shortly after 4.30pm United Kingdom time on Thursday, and WhatsApp said some users were still facing issues while accessing its service.

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