WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform stopped working on Tuesday morning, affecting its over two billion monthly active users.
Peoples Gazette reported that, a Meta spokesperson said the company was working to restore services “as quickly as possible.”
“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,” the spokesperson said, as quoted by Reuters.
Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages across the globe, recorded a sharp spike in the number of users reporting WhatsApp’s outage.
As of 8:30 am, there had been over 5,000 complaints that the messaging platform was experiencing downtime
Howbeit, the messaging app, is back after millions of users of the social media platform were unable to send, and receive messages, the services were restored around 10:00 am (just over two hours after the outage)
Source: Peoples Gazette
