WhatsApp, the messaging platform owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta on Tuesday morning suffered a global outage with users struggling to send messages.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the WhatsApp outage was observed in Nigeria at about 7:48 am WAT after messages sent by our reporter failed to deliver.
The mobile app for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, as well as WhatsApp web were affected by the outage. Updating the app didn’t help, even.
Findings minutes later revealed that it is actually a worldwide outage as users across the globe experience similar outages. Users took to Twitter to report difficulties in sending messages and WhatsApp entered trend table as a result.
Meanwhile, Downdetector, a website that monitors service outages for messaging and social media platforms has confirmed the development.
However, there is no official response or acknowledgement from WhatsApp as of now. As per reports, users are not being able to send or receive messages on the messaging platform.