WhatsApp is make a copy after suffering an downtime that affected users around the globe for hours. The Facebook-owned messaging service confirmed in a media statement that it had been inaccessible, however didn’t say why.
“Earlier nowadays, WhatsApp users altogether parts of the globe were unable to access WhatsApp for some hours. we’ve currently fixed the problem and apologize for the inconvenience,” said a WhatsApp spokesperson in an email.
User frustration was compounded by the fact that none of WhatsApp’s main social media accounts seem to be very active.
The Twitter account it once used for status reports has not been updated in additional than 3 years, around the time that WhatsApp agreed to be non-heritable by Facebook in a deal eventually valued at $22 million. The last tweet on its main Twitter account was from last August, while its Facebook page is updated additional frequently however conjointly relatively quiet and didn’t post status updates these days.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared earlier these days on the Organizations earnings call that WhatsApp status, the Snapchat Stories rival it launched in the middle of February, currently has one hundred seventy five (175) million daily users. that’s concerning 15 % of the applications 1.2 billion users.
We have contacted WhatsApp for additional details on what caused the downtime.
