WhatsApp down for some users in India, company says working on it

WhatsApp is down for some users. The instant messaging website is showing connection error. Users are not able to make calls or send messages on the Facebook-owned messaging platform. Downdetector, the website that tracks internet outages, too is showing problems with the messaging platform. The extent of the outage is not known so far. As per Downdetector website, users starting reporting issues starting 12.07 pm and they peaked around 12.51 pm.
WhatsApp has acknowledged 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,” a Meta spokesperson said.
It is not clear what has caused the disruption. There is no statement on WhatsApp or parent company Meta’s (erstwhile Facebook) official Twitter account.
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Several users have also reported the disruption on Twitter and as of writing this post, the hashtag “whatsappdown” has garnered over 10,000-plus tweets and counting.
Longest outage of WhatsApp happened in October 2021
The longest WhatsApp outage happened in October 2021. Social media giant Facebook and its family of apps WhatsApp and Instagram were inaccessible to billions of users for around six hours.
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