WhatsApp says technical difficulty reported by hundreds now resolved

Messaging service WhatsApp went down briefly on Friday afternoon, hundreds of customers reported.

Downdetector, a website which displays platform outages, obtained greater than 50,000 studies from customers shortly after 15:30 GMT, which started to say no quickly after.

WhatsApp mentioned the problems, largely impacting customers’ capability to ship messages, had now been resolved.

“We all know some individuals briefly had hassle sending messages on WhatsApp,” a spokesperson advised the BBC. “We have fastened the problem.”

Some customers reported issues affecting Fb and Fb Messenger, however in a lot fewer numbers than WhatsApp.

The finish to finish encrypted messaging app, acquired by Meta in 2014, has almost three billion customers worldwide.

Meta’s final mass world outage affected WhatsApp and Instagram in December.

The corporate’s boss Mark Zuckerberg advised traders on the finish of January that the corporate was “making progress in direction of changing into the main messaging platform within the US like it’s in a variety of the remainder of the world”.

In October, he mentioned greater than two billion calls had been occurring globally on the app every single day.

However the scale of the app’s consumer base can imply that any glitches are felt by hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the globe.

Nevertheless, few of the latest technical difficulties affecting Meta’s apps have come near mirroring the affect of its outage in 2021, which noticed the corporate’s apps go down for almost six hours worldwide.