According to the Wall Street Journal, on Tuesday Meta’s instant messaging application WhatsApp experienced a global service interruption, and some users said that they could not use related services for more than an hour.
In response, a WhatsApp spokesperson said: “We know people are having trouble sending messages using WhatsApp today. We have resolved the issue and apologize for the inconvenience.” However, the spokesperson did not Explain the cause of the failure.
WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users worldwide, with India as the largest market with more than 400 million users.
Downdetector data shows that more than 28,000 reports have been received from India that WhatsApp stopped working at noon local time. In addition, there are more than 67,000 reports from the UK. Although the outage occurred at night in the United States, Downdetector recorded more than 4,600 user reports in the United States.
