Users of the messaging platform Whatsapp have been reporting issues with their service on Tuesday morning, October 25. The world’s most popular messaging app appears to have stopped working, potentially affecting billions of users.
The app would allow people to type messages to friends and then press send. The messages then became stuck at 'one tick' which means they never actually delivering.
It means that users are likely sending and being sent messages without them actually being delivered – potentially leading to problems. People around the world have taken to social media after the issue, with some voicing their frustration.
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WhatsApp does not maintain any official outlets to update users on outages. Unlike the rest of Meta, it does not run an official status page, and it has a Twitter account intended to document problems but has not used it since 2014.
It also runs official Facebook and Twitter accounts, but neither had been updated in response to the outage. WhatsApp is the biggest chat platform in the world, with more than two billion monthly active users, and the third biggest social platform after Facebook and YouTube.
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