WhatsApp down for thousands of users across the world


FE Team | Published: October 25, 2022 14:42:51 | Updated: October 25, 2022 16:03:14


A woman uses her phone next to a logo of the WhatsApp application during Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India on September 20, 2022 — Reuters/Files

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working for many users across the world, with users across India, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Asia reporting issues with sending and receiving texts and videos.

"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 spokesperson for WhatsApp parent company Meta Platforms said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

Downdetector said more than 11,000 users across India had reported an outage, while the numbers for United Kingdom were at 68,000 and 19,000 for Singapore as of about 0750 GMT.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may have affected a larger number of users.

According to a BBC report, WhatsApp has about two billion global active users.

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