Popular messaging platform WhatsApp went down on Tuesday at around 10:20 am (EAT) with millions of users globally unable to send messages to group chats and only one tick was showing to messages sent to individuals.
Many WhatsApp users reported facing issues with their chats globally. Not only smartphone users but even WhatsApp web and WhatsApp desktop apps were also down.
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp and Facebook, said that they are working to resolve the issue. “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 Meta Spokesperson.
It may be noted that WhatsApp has over 2.5 billion users globally with the chat platform able to witness over 5 billion messages every day.
“5.5 billion unencrypted SMS are sent every day. With WhatsApp, your messages won’t be one of them. Step-up to a new era of personal privacy with automatic end-to-end encryption,” said the instant messaging platform in a Tweet on October 17.
According to reports, Meta, the company that owns the instant messaging programme WhatsApp, is considering several big changes to improve the user experience across the board. Currently, the instant messaging platform is working on many updates, such as expanding chat groups, prohibiting screenshots on the “View Once” feature, sharing documents with captions, and more.
Meanwhile, social media users flooded Twitter with WhatsApp down memes. Several users noted that they came to Twitter to check if WhatsApp was down for all users.
“coming to see if whatsapp’s down with the one ticks,” wrote a Twitter user.
“I’m not the only one who opened twitter to check if WhatsApp was down then,” another user reacted.
“So I was blaming my WiFi but actually I got to check on Twitter that the WhatsApp is down,” said a Twitter user.
“People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down,” tweeted another user.
It’s not clear how much time it will take WhatsApp to return to normalcy.
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