Asian News InternationalJuly 15, 2020 10:36:24 IST
Messaging application WhatsApp In the early hours of Wednesday, there was an outage in India and worldwide, with thousands of users reporting technical issues in the popular end-to-end encrypted application.
According to Down Detector, which monitors and provides status and outage information in real time, users began reporting issues from 1:32 am
Most users (72 percent) reported connecting, sending or receiving messages, as well as login problems.
72 percent of users reported connection problems, sending or receiving messages, as well as login problems.
Many of the more than 1.5 billion users, on both Android and iOS, were unable to log in to the app. The reason behind the problem has yet to be announced by the company.
On various social networks, including Twitter, users posted about the issues they were facing with the popular cross-platform messaging app.
“Has anyone noticed that WhatsApp is down … Or is it just me …” wrote a user on Twitter.
Another tweeted: “WhatsApp is idle even after uninstalling, reinstalling and restarting my phone.”
“I go to Twitter to confirm if WhatsApp is really wrong #WhatsApp,” wrote another user.
#whatsappdown soon started trending on Twitter.
Downdetector.com Users from Sri Lanka, Peru, London, New Delhi, New York, Brazi, The Netherlands, Germany, Egypt, Colmbia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, Ireland, etc. reported the cut.
However, shortly thereafter the platform started working again.
This is not the first time that the messaging application has stopped working. WhatsApp users faced a similar problem twice in January 2019.
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