Shortly before noon, the group assured to have solved the problem. Services appear to be working on the platform again in France, the UK, and Asia.
The Meta group assured on Tuesday that it had resolved the global outage that affected the billions of users of its WhatsApp instant messaging service, one of the most popular in the world. On the application, in the middle of the morning, the symbol “Connexionwas running continuously and content was no longer being sent. “We know people had a hard time messaging on WhatsApp today“, told AFP a spokesman for Meta. “We have resolved the issue and apologize for any inconvenience».
The cause of the failure has not yet been specified. Hours earlier, DownDetector.com, which tracks digital service outages, said it had observed a widespread disruption of WhatsApp. At 9:43 a.m., the site listed more than 8,000 reports in France concerning the “connexion», «sending and receiving messages“. This failure also affected Belgian, Indian and English users. Many Internet users have posted the problem on social networks. The hashtag #WhatsAppDown found itself number one in Twitter France trends this Tuesday morning. “Once again, WhatsApp is still down”could we read on the platform.
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WhatsApp, which surpassed two billion users worldwide in February 2020, is one of the most popular free messengers in the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for just over $19 billion, the largest acquisition ever made by Mark Zuckerberg’s group. This is not the first time that the messaging system has suffered an outage. In 2021, the three applications of the Meta group, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram experienced several outages. Last time in October, it took Meta engineers more than six hours to get the services back online.
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