WHATSAPP Service Experience A Problem As Millions Of Internet Users Unhappy

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The Popular messaging application - WhatsApp has gone down in a number of locations around the world sending millions of internet users into panic yesterday night, around 9pm.

The system status says:
Our service is experiencing a problem right now, we are working on it,and hope to restore the functionality shortly, sorry for the inconvinence



According to a variety of reports on social media, WhatsApp users in Nigeria, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Israel, Russia, Ireland, Switzerland, Aruba, Turkey, the US and other locations have experienced problems.

Users are unable to access the service and cannot send or receive any messages…

The issues began at around 9pm and there’s still no word on when things will be back online.

The popular messaging app last experienced a major outage on New Year’s Eve – with users around the globe reporting down-time.

    A spokesperson for the app had said: “Some people have had trouble accessing WhatsApp for a short period today.

    “We’re working to restore service back to 100 per cent for everyone and we apologise for the inconvenience.”

There are rumours that the outage is due to a major update that WhatsApp is working on.

The Facebook-owned messaging service, which has more than 1.2 billion users worldwide, told Metro that it “is aware of the issue and working to fix it as soon as possible.”

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