LAHORE , July 20, 2023: WhatsApp, one of the most popular apps in the world, went down in what appears to be a global outage, according to users in multiple countries. However, the services are getting restored currently after the outage. Whereas, Only few details are currently available.
The outage began at roughly 1 pm (GMT+5) on Thursday when users said they were unable to send or receive new messages. At the top of the screen, it was simply saying: “Connecting….”
At one point, there were more than 37,000 incidents of people in the United States reporting issues with the messaging service, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Meanwhile, more than 177,000 users reported issues with WhatsApp in the United Kingdom and nearly 15,000 said they faced trouble while using the messaging app in India.
The cause of the outage was not immediately known and there was no immediate comment from WhatsApp. Not only the Mobile App version, but also the Web version was not working as well. While refreshing sometimes it was giving an error something went wrong. People took to twitter to mock Whatsapp’s frequent outages.
However, Whatsapp services are getting restored in Pakistan, as user gradually started recieiving their pending messages.
WhatsApp Messenger was founded by Jan Koum in 2009 and was later sold to Facebook. By 2020 the app had more than 2 billion users around the world, making it the world’s most popular mobile messaging app.