The instant messaging app WhatsApp experiences incidents and crashes worldwideas reflected by the various pages that monitor in real time the operation of the main social networks.
The failure of this service, one of the most popular and used by users around the world, was reported by hundreds of people on other social networks. There are reports from Britain, India, the United States, South Korea and Latin America.
In fact, the fall of the WhatsApp service has become a “trend” in other social networks and has already become the issue that most Internet users comment on.
The Downdetector page, which monitors in real time incidents recorded on major social networks, reflects how Incidents began to be recorded in the early hours of Tuesday.
(We recommend: This is how they steal your WhatsApp account with messages in your voicemail).
WhatsApp is owned by Meta.
Users of this service are having problems sending and receiving messages, and in most cases they can’t see their messages reading the confirmation notification (double blue tick).
It major incidents reported by users and recorded on this website, which has recorded nearly 30,000 reports from around the world, referring to problems with messaging (75 percent); for normal operation of the application (19 percent); and problems on the app’s website (6 percent).
The WhatsApp application, which has nearly 2,000 million users worldwide, allows you to send and receive messages over the Internet, which is why it has replaced and replaced other traditional services such as SMS in many cases.
(Keep reading: WhatsApp: how to save your contact status before deletion?).
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to get WhatsApp back to everyone as quickly as possible,” Josh Breckman, a spokesman for the app, said in a statement.
Shortly after, WhatsApp’s parent company Meta (also owner of Facebook) confirmed the failure and indicated it was working to restore service as soon as possible.
After two hours of discomfort, users started reporting service recovery. Before 5 a.m. (Colombian time), the Downdetector portal noted a drop in reports.
Meta claims to have resolved WhatsApp’s failure and apologized, but did not specify the cause of the worldwide crash.
EFE and AFP
You can also read:
– Supposedly Amazon manager job offer via SMS is wrong.
– If you get this message on your phone, don’t open it, your data will be stolen.
– What is the difference between WhatsApp groups and communities?
“Entrepreneur. Internet fanatic. Certified zombie scholar. Friendly troublemaker. Bacon expert.”
