Meta’s instant messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working in various parts of the world. users Specify via or on other platforms such as Twitter HE unable to send and receive messages. The “Connecting…” notification appears when trying to use the app on both iOS and Android. If you try to send a message, it doesn’t reach the recipient and displays the pending icon next to it instead of the gray and blue confirmations for sent, delivered, and read.

Downdetector, the platform that allows users to report and verify the status of different applications and services, reports the crash of the world’s most popular messaging application, which is not working in any of the existing channels (mobile applications, computer applications and web pages). User reports of issues with WhatsApp started to pile up around 21:53 (Spain peninsula time); They exceed 6,000 and continue to appear as the minutes pass.

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The official communication channels of the company did not address the problems experienced by the application for now. WhatsApp Status account (@wa_status) has been inactive on Twitter for a long time. Another service account, WhatsApp (@What’s up), He didn’t post about it either.. As a result, what actually happens at the moment is an absolute unknown. However, in the world of web services and applications, multiple scenarios can occur that result in a general crash.

Downdetector mirrors WhatsApp’s decline

Meta gave some hints in the status panel of their commerce service. “We are currently experiencing a major outage on WhatsApp affecting the receipt and delivery of incoming messages. We will provide another update in 1 hour or sooner if additional information is available.” In this way, it was confirmed that all business functions related to WhatsApp Business, as well as the business API of the application, failed.

Let’s remember that in 2021, a few apps belonging to the Meta conglomerate (Facebook at the time) went through real hell when a general outage affected their global operations. WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger were down for more than six hours due to a failure that caused millions of losses to the parent company. The issue was caused by one of the parts of the company infrastructure that required on-site adjustments in the data centers to resolve.

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