Massive WhatsApp outage left users worldwide unable to communicate with friends and loved ones – but the issue was fixed one hour after hitting the platform
- WhatsApp went down around 4pm ET and is impacting the app and website
- The outage appeared to be hitting every country across the globe
WhatsApp was hit with a massive outage Wednesday, leaving hundreds of thousands of users in the dark.
The Meta-owned app was down worldwide, impacting users’ ability to communicate with friends and loved ones.
DownDetector, a site that monitors online problems, showed issues started around 4pm ET, and while it received a flood of issue reports, the outage was over in about one hour.
Meta used the new Threads to acknowledge the ‘connectivity issues with WhatsApp.’
WhatsApp was hit by a global outage impacting the app and website
WhatsApp is part of Meta’s entourage of platforms, which includes Facebook, Instagram and the newcomer, Threads.
However, WhatsApp is designed solely for communication – and many users are now left in the dark.
Issue reports for the US alone had surpassed 29,000.
Approximately 55 percent said they were having issues sending messages, 42 percent were experiencing problems with the app, and three percent said the website was not working.
However, the UK side of DownDetector shows more than 160,000 issue reports.
Of these reports, 63 percent said they are having issues sending could not receive messages.
WhatsApp’s Twitter page did not mention the massive outage on its Twitter page.
WhatsApp has an estimated monthly active user base of 2.7 billion people, but it is not clear how many have been impacted by the outage.
Issue reports for the US alone had surpassed 29,000
However, the UK side of DownDetector showed more than 160,000 issue reports