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Users miffed with WhatsApp crash; services partially restored in some countries

Users in India and other countries reported the outage on social media.

By ET Online | Updated:
Users miffed with WhatsApp crash; services partially restored in some countries

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger was down for some users in India, according to user accounts on Facebook and Twitter on Friday afternoon. However, services have since then partially been restored in some countries, according to reports.

Users in countries from Myanmar to Russia and Vietnam to Brazil reported that WhatsApp was down in their countries too on social media.

The extent of the outage was not immediately known, but some users reported that WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, had begun to function again about 30 minutes after initial complaints of an outage.

According to an Independent website DownDetector, 60 per cent of customers were having issues connected to Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

A spokeswoman for Facebook in Singapore said the company was investigating the matter.

Whatsappdown was the top trending item on Twitter in India, which is its biggest market with roughly 200 million of its billion-plus users. Several users took to Twitter to vent out their frustration with #whatsappdown trending.












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Users in Malaysia and Singapore also complained of WhatsApp being down in those regions.

WhatsApp's is used by more than 1.2 billion people around the world and is a key tool for communications and commerce in many countries. The service was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion.
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WhatsApp was also down in May this year for a few hours in all parts of the world.

(With inputs from Reuters and IANS)

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