The Meta group said on Tuesday it had resolved a global outage that affected billions of users of its WhatsApp instant messaging service, one of the world’s most popular. On the application, in the middle of the morning, the symbol “enterwas running all the time and content was no longer being sent. “We know that people are finding it difficult to send messages on WhatsApp todayA Meta representative told AFP. “We have resolved the issue and apologize for the inconvenience“.
The cause of the failure has not yet been specified. Hours ago, DownDetector.com, which tracks digital service outages, reported widespread WhatsApp outages. As of 9:43 a.m., the site listed more than 8,000 reports in France of “contact“, “send and receive messages“. Belgian, Indian and English users were also affected by this failure. Many of the Internet users posted the problem on social networks. The #WhatsAppDown hashtag was number one on Twitter France trends this Tuesday morning. “Again WhatsApp still not working”we could read on the platform.
WhatsApp, which surpassed two billion users worldwide in February 2020, is one of the most popular free messengers in the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for just over $19 billion, the largest acquisition ever by Mark Zuckerberg’s group. This isn’t the first time the messaging system has crashed. In 2021, the three applications of the Meta group, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, experienced several outages. Last time, in October, it took Meta engineers more than six hours to bring services back online.
Source: Le Figaro
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