WhatsApp resumes after temporarily crashing worldwide

Thousands of users of the most commonly used messaging service, WhatsApp experienced an outage that hit most parts of the world on Thursday morning.

Users were unable to send or receive messages for about half an hour. The application is since back.



PHOTO: OUTAGE.REPORT

For an iPhone user, the name of the person or group was replaced with a spinning wheel while the top displayed the word ‘connecting’. On Android, the messages remained unsent.

WhatsApp is having issues since 02:03 AM ESThttps://t.co/hGQzHHfhC6
RT if you're also affected #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/xvDSuaUXP5

— Outage.Report (@ReportOutage) June 14, 2018

Users took to Twitter to complain and ask questions regarding the outage while WhatsApp remains silent on this issue.

Is it my whatsapp only? #WhatsappDown

— Shahtaj Khan (@ShahtajkhanSAK) June 14, 2018

Yes, WhatsApp is Down... but luckily South African service providers have given us all those free sms' to finally use #WhatsAppDown

— Brent Lindeque (@BrentLindeque) June 14, 2018

Anyone else? #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/WQtXmiqbXt

— Jamil (@jamilkob) June 14, 2018

Thank goodness for Twitter... I see it's not just me... #whatsappdown

— Joy Francisco (@joy_francisco) June 14, 2018

So it appears #whatsapp has gone on vacation today#whatsappdown

Here we are turning to Twitter and Facebook to confirm

— Cindy Poluta (@CindyPoluta) June 14, 2018

#WhatsAppDown server is around the Globe.

Cc: #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/kbD5aSGM4k

— SherY - (@SherySyed_) June 14, 2018

What's wrong with Whatsapp now. #Whatsappdown

— Amit Tolani (@iTweetard) June 14, 2018

#WhatsappDown globally pic.twitter.com/5Vj7iCR9lh

— Lauren (@missscottfraser) June 14, 2018

Back up and running! #WhatsappDown #whatsapp

— Baani Ahluwalia (@BaaniAhluwalia) June 14, 2018