WhatsApp back after brief outage, heres what caused it

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is now back online after facing a global outage, including in India, due to “connectivity issues”. Also Read: Instagram Launches Limited-Edition Diwali Filters: Here’s How To Use Them

The company acknowledged the issue early Thursday and tweeted: “We’re working quickly to resolve connectivity issues with WhatsApp and we’ll update you here as soon as possible.” Also Read: Meta AI Adds UPI Lite, Hindi Support, and Deepika Padukone’s Voice to Ray-Ban Glasses in India

After about 20 minutes, it posted, “and we’re back, happy chatting!” Also Read: Meta Wants Employees To Build The Metaverse 5X Faster Using AI

When a user posted, “fix it before it is morning in India, don’t want to miss out on the Good Morning messages”, the Meta-owned platform replied: “We’re back, we don’t want you to miss them!”

According to the outage monitor website DownDetector, 61 percent of people had reported problems while sending messages, 35 percent while using the application, and four percent while using the website.

On Downdetector, reports of the users peaked at over 41,000.

Taking to Twitter, several users reported the issue.

While one user asked, “is it just me or is WhatsApp down?” another posted: “Me turning my Wi-Fi on and off 7 times but it was just WhatsApp down.”

Last month, the messaging platform had faced a global outage that lasted for about two hours.

Some WhatsApp users were unable to use the platform on their mobile and desktop devices, while some were experiencing issues with sending and downloading media.

According to DownDetector, 76 per cent of people had reported problems while using the website, 17 per cent while using the application, and 7 per cent while sending messages.

In January this year, the messaging platform had faced a server-side issue globally on iOS, making it impossible to update the privacy setting “who can see when I’m online”.

In October last year, the platform had suffered a global outage including in India that lasted for over two hours.

— IANS