Our Correspondent | 25th October 2022
The world's most popular messaging app appears to have stopped working, potentially affecting billions of users around the world.
The issue which was noticed at about 8am UK time has led to a huge spike of reports on outage tracking website DownDetector, with users around the world reporting problems
Normally the app would allow people to type messages to friends, but recent experiences has seen users sending and being sent messages without them actually being delivered – potentially leading to problems.
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WhatsApp Web also appears to be affected by the outage, and we can confirm that app's web client is simply not connecting anymore. Anyone trying to use WhatsApp Web will be greeted to an error message like the one seen below.
Whatsapp, whatsapp web down, whatsapp web, WhatsApp Web is also not working, as people continue to wait for a fix for the outage.
WhatsApp's parent company Meta has acknowledged the outage and is currently working on a fix, as per a new report by ANI. Check it out below.
WhatsApp does not maintain any official outlets to update users on outages. Unlike the rest of Meta, it does not run an official status page, and it has a Twitter account intended to document problems but has not used it since 2014.
It also runs official Facebook and Twitter accounts, but neither had been updated in response to the outage.
WhatsApp is the biggest chat platform in the world, with more than two billion monthly active users, and the third biggest social platform after Facebook and YouTube.
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