On Tuesday, there was a widespread outage of WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta.
According to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages across internet services, issues were initially noticed at about 3:17 a.m. ET.WhatsApw
Users experienced issues with message sending and receiving. By 4:05 a.m. ET, WhatsApp’s regular service still hadn’t been reinstated.
When tested by CNBC, the messaging service’s web-based version, WhatsApp, did not load. A notice on WhatsApp Web said, “Make sure your computer has an active Internet connection.”
Later, Meta confirmed the WhatsApp difficulties.
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” a Meta spokesperson told CNBC.
WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users worldwide, is especially well-liked in nations like India and Brazil.q
It is not the first bug to affect a platform controlled by Meta this year. Facebook users complained in August that messages from other people that were originally posted on celebrity accounts were flooding their news feed.
