Severe outage knocked WhatsApp down

19 Jul 2023

Manish Singh 9 hours

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned ubiquitous messaging app, was inaccessible to many users around the globe due to a “major disruption” earlier Wednesday. Tens of thousands of users reported issues sending and receiving messages on the social app, used by over 2 billion users each month.

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The outage started at around 1.15 p.m. Pacific time, according to user messages and last for about 40 to 50 minutes.

Meta’s business website earlier said the outage had caused a “major disruption.” It’s unclear what caused the outage.

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