WhatsApp works today after the down and the problems, now solved, who also blocked Facebook and Instagram for almost 7 hours. The messaging app, on tilt in Italy from about 17.30, returns to use just before 1 October 5. “The WhatsApp messaging services have been fully restored. If it still doesn’t work for you, just wait a few minutes,” writes the @WABetainfo profile, a mine of news and information about the app, on Twitter.
Shortly thereafter, the tweet from Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer: “Facebook services are coming back online now. It may take a while to get to 100%. Every business big and small, every family, every business. every individual who depends on us: I’m sorry, “he writes.
The white smoke comes after almost 7 hours of #WhatsAppdown, #Facebookdown and #Instagramdown with hashtags trending on Twitter. The reboot, around midnight, was initially confirmed by messages from users in some countries – Germany, Azerbaijan, Pakistan – after 5 hours of general blackout, linked to network problems. According to experts from various specialized companies, the down would be related to problems related to a DNS, which translates the name of the websites into an IP address.
In Italy, the alarm went off around 17.30. The downdetector site reported a surge in user reports of outages and problems. The problems have been found internationally, as evidenced by hundreds of thousands of messages posted on Twitter.