Messaging App WhatsApp has come back to life after a disrupted service.
The outage began at about 8:40am Tuesday, according to user complaints.
WhatsApp has acknowledged the outage.
DownDetectorand WaBetaInfo, two web services that track the Facebook app, have confirmed the outage. DownDetector, which received over 5,000 complaints about the glitch from users in a span of an hour, shows that U.S. and India are among those most impacted by the outage. India is the largest market of WhatsApp users.
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In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said: “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”
WhatsApp has become a critical infrastructure in many markets, used by government officials, telecom service providers and of course, billions of people.