WhatsApp is now back after brief global outage, was down in India too

Meanwhile, people took to Twitter to complain about the problems with the messaging service. “First we open WhatsApp, then we open Twitter to know if #whatsappdown is for everyone,” wrote a Twitter user. “Whatsapp is down, I repeat Whatsapp is down,” tweeted out another user.

Notably, this is not the first time that WhatsApp has faced an outage. The Facebook-owned company was down globally early September as well, with users reporting problems accessing the app. In May, WhatsApp was down for a few hours in all parts of the world, including from Malaysia to Spain, Germany and some other European countries. Severely affected countries included Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain.