While the cause of the outage is not yet clear, cybersecurity experts are saying that it’s a problem with the domain name system, which means absolutely nothing to me personally. ET, and have been down for a few hours in what’s turning out to be an unusually long outage.
Uh-oh.įacebook and two of its properties, as well as its virtual-reality arm, Oculus, stopped working for users around the world on Monday around 12 p.m. "So now that #Whatsapp isn't working I've actually talked to my family, they seem like nice people," tweeted a self-described social media addict in Jordan.Īnd of Surrey, England, scolded, "Can't believe all these people are crying about Whatsapp not working, do some exercise, do some work, learn a language.You’ve probably noticed that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down today, meaning that you must look reality dead in the eye for longer than usual. WhatsApp is the leader among a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are now sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe, and is known to appeal to teens and others who avoid mainstream social networks.ĭuring the outage the buzz on Twitter ranged from the conspiratorial - that Facebook had really bought WhatsApp to shut it down and funnel users to Facebook Chat - to the philosophical. On Saturday, some of those users took to other forms of social media, including blogs and Twitter to report the outage and vent their frustration. Facebook referred questions on the outage to WhatsApp representatives, who did not immediately respond.įive-year-old WhatsApp currently has about 450 million users globally and has been adding a million users daily. We are so sorry for the downtime.," WhatsApp tweeted to its more than 1 million Twitter followers on Saturday around 5:48 pm EST (2248 GMT).Įarlier, the service had said it was "experiencing server issues" without providing further details. WhatsApp, the rapidly expanding mobile messaging app, suffered an outage for more than three hours on Saturday, frustrating users just days after its acquisition by Facebook for $19 billion.
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