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Meta's WhatsApp apologizes for global service disruption: the issue has been resolved

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 11:20:56 10月05日 Update

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen FullinLove for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Oct. 26 (Xinhua)-- Meta's instant messaging app WhatsApp suffered a global service outage on Tuesday, local time, and some users said it could not use the service for more than an hour, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In response, a spokesman for WhatsApp said: "We know that people are having trouble sending messages using WhatsApp today. We have resolved this problem and apologize for the inconvenience." However, the spokesman did not explain the cause of the failure.

CTOnews.com learned that WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users worldwide, and India is the largest market with more than 400 million users.

More than 28000 reports have been received from India that WhatsApp stopped working at noon local time, according to Downdetector. In addition, there are more than 67,000 reports from the UK. Although the failure occurred overnight in the United States, Downdetector recorded more than 4600 user reports in the United States.