WhatsApp is down worldwide and everyone is freaking out

According to users across the world, they are unable to send or receive chats or even load up conversations

WhatsApp is down. Yes, you read that right. People are unable to send or receive chats or even load up conversations, according to users.

And there doesn't seem to be any easy way of fixing the issue, which is affecting users worldwide.

According to the website Down Detector, problems with the app began over the last hour. The last major outage hit WhatsApp on New Year's Eve in 2015.

Unfortunately,  WhatsApp doesn't maintain a status page to alert users to when it is gone down. A Twitter account intended to serve that purpose hasn't been updated since 2014.

The misery was real on Twitter:

Trying to get WhatsApp to work like #WhatsApp #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/cwt541sliM

— Jordan Kavanagh (@JKav87) May 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/rickrvsso/status/859882187939774468

When you come to twitter to check if #whatsapp is down 😂 #thirdworldproblems

— Rajeshri Khatri (@RajeshriKhatri) May 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/parastephamol/status/859882458552172544

Waiting to catch up on the group chat like... #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/3VYH2GhrT8

— Paul Kerr (@pkerr91) May 3, 2017

Life without WhatsApp #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/KmJY8GqXX9

— 🇦 🇳 🇬 🇮 🇪 (La de los cafecitos) (@AngeliqueMGR) May 3, 2017