WhatsApp services restored after a two-hour-long outage

Messaging app WhatsApp is back after an almost two hour long outage in India and some other countries.

Downdetector, an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services, started noticing unusually high WhatsApp problem reports at 12:07 pm on Tuesday (October 25). Several such reports were listed by Downdetector by 1 pm on Tuesday.

About 69 per cent users said their messages were not going through. Others reported about server disconnection and the app crashing altogether.

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The messaging service was also down for users across the UK, Italy and Turkey.

A spokesperson at Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram besides WhatsApp, had said: “We are aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we are working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”

Soon after the outage, a hashtag #WhatsAppDown began trending on Twitter and other social media platforms. Many users reacted to the outage.

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A twitter user @pinjabiii_munda tweeted: “People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down #WhatsappDown.”

People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down#WhatsappDown pic.twitter.com/eGi25KiQhU

— Bella Ciao (Chai) (@punjabiii_munda) October 25, 2022

Another user @JACKIEAPPU1 tweeted: “Me after restarting my phone, putting it on airplane mode and uninstalling WhatsApp and then coming to Twitter #whatsappdown #whatsappdown.”

Me after restarting my phone, putting it on airplane mode and uninstalling whatsapp and then coming to Twitter 😭#whatsappdown#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/azHsK1tPfb

— JACKIE APPU (@JACKIEAPPU1) October 25, 2022

One user @wanizubair tweeted an image, wrote: “WhatsApp users waiting for their hanging messages to send #WhatsAppDown.”

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WhatsApp users waiting for their hanging messages to send 😂😂#WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/GZPMwrGK4G

— Wanizubair (@wanizubair26) October 25, 2022

India is WhatsApp’s largest market by user numbers, at over 50 crore downloads.