What’s new? Whatsapp users are left baffled as the messaging network crashes, sending thousands to Twitter to complain
- Over 40,000 people reported WhatsApp issues just before 10 p.m.
- WhatsApp users said messages weren’t loading and they couldn’t connect to them
- Most problems were reported in London, Manchester and Birmingham
Thousands of WhatsApp users reported the popular messaging service crashing tonight.
More than 40,000 Britons reported problems with the service just before 10pm on Thursday – with similar reports made by countless others around the world.
The cause of the problem is unclear, but some users have reported not being able to connect to the service.
Others said they couldn’t send messages, while others said the app just wouldn’t load.
Over 40,000 Britons reported problems with WhatsApp just before 10pm on Thursday
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Baffled users took to Twitter to complain about the outage.
This appeared to affect users across the UK, while foreign language data sites also reported issues.
Most of the problems were reported in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
More than 500 million people use WhatsApp, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
Reacting to the issues, one user wrote: “Yes WhatsApp is down again. »
Another revealed: “I realize WhatsApp is down after restarting my WiFi 50 times and uninstalling the app 6 times. »
WhatsApp tweeted: “You may be having issues with WhatsApp right now.
“We are aware and working to get things working properly again. We will keep you posted and in the meantime, thank you for your patience.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down for nearly seven hours last year during a massive global outage.
Issues have prevented users from accessing all three platforms, as well as Facebook Messenger and Oculus.
Facebook, which owns all the services, blamed the outage on a failed server update and insisted it was not an attack from outside the company.
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