WhatsApp Messenger, most popular messaging faced a global outage with numbers of users helpless to send or receive messages on Tuesday night.
WhatsApp has approximately 1.5 billion users. The whatsapp application went down at around 11:30 pm IST, which was thereafter approved by outage tracker down detector.
The outage was faced on diverse platforms including iPhone and Android, with some affected users reportedly unable to also log in to WhatsApp.
Users immediately took to Twitter to report about the issue.
Is it only me who did not notice that WhatsApp was down till i saw it trending jana ? #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/RvpmxAcXfa
— Steve Ogut™🇰🇪 (@steveogut) January 23, 2019
500 people in India have already died because Whatsapp is down and they couldn't forward a chain message to 10 people. #WhatsappDown #whatsapp
— ansHU MOR (@anshuMor) January 22, 2019
whatsapp down.
— vali petcu (@zoso) January 22, 2019
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