You weren’t the only one experiencing this bug. The WhatsApp messaging service (Meta group) has been affected by an outage since 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The application displayed the loading symbol next to “Connection” and the contents were not sent to the recipient. The service interruption went beyond France, since the service was inaccessible in Asia or the United States. If some micro-cuts still persisted at the end of the morning, Meta finally announced shortly before noon that it had solved the outage and apologized.
The hashtag #WhatsAppDown has, as usual, flourished on social networks like Twitter.
The DownDetector site has recorded a sudden increase in reports of the failure. Meta’s other social networks, such as Instagram or Facebook, were not affected.
Contacted by Le Parisien, the Meta group, victim of an unprecedented giant outage of all its services last year, had indicated “to be aware that some people have problems sending messages and we are working to restore WhatsApp for everyone. world as quickly as possible. Two hours later the courier was responding again.