WhatsApp DOWN: Messaging app STOPS working; Chetan Bhagat joins Twitterati to spill hilarious jokes

The Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp stopped working for over an hour and #WhatsAppDown started trending on Twitter. Social media users couldn't help but sprinkle some humour and sarcasm into the matter.

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What’s your ‘WhatsApp Down’ joke for the day? (Source: Pixabay/Twitter)

Hit by a major breakdown, the messaging app WhatsApp stopped working for about an hour and millions of people from across the globe were left anxious. The hefty bog down of the Facebook-owned app became a talking point on all other networking websites for more than an hour as people were unable to send or receive messages. What called for confusion and chaos was that the app was easily opening and showing all the contacts. However, one someone started chatting, it displayed a “connecting” message which didn’t load for over half an hour.

With all the hullabaloo over it, #WhatsAppDown started trending on Twitter, and social media users couldn’t help but sprinkle some humour and sarcasm into the matter. Even after the service was resumed, the micro-blogging site was overflowing with ‘WhatsApp Down’ jokes. Author Chetan Bhagat also joined in with his pun and wrote: “The reason for #WhatsAppDown could be an Indian engineer working there. His girl blocked him and he went ‘le phir, main block to sab block’.”

Check out some reactions here that will leave you in splits.

The reason for #WhatsAppDown could be an Indian engineer working there. His girl blocked him and he went ‘le phir, main block to sab block’

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 3, 2017

500 people in India have already died because Whatsapp is down and they couldn’t forward a chain message to 10 people. #WhatsappDown

— Anshu Mor (@anshuMor) November 3, 2017

#WhatsAppDown This dumb piece of shit WhatsApp goes down worldwide and also deleted me from my family jokes group, the forwards of which I thoroughly enjoyed reading and I definitely didn’t exit the group myself, the app is so buggy, it was entirely Whatsapp’s fault.

— Akshar (@AksharPathak) November 3, 2017

Whatsapp msg not sent:
Step 1: Restart Mobile Data
Step 2: Restart phone
Step 3: Check #Twitter #whatsappdown trending. Now I feel better!

— Gayatri Gambhir (@gayatri_171) November 3, 2017

#WhatsApp group admins, God is teaching you a lesson…YOUR POWER IS LIMITED. #WhatsAppDown

— Alex Masereka Joel (@kukuwazabanga) November 3, 2017

ppl are reacting on whatsapp down as if its a major problem like global warming ;))#WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/L6hHw9SL9e

— preetam kumar biswal (@BiswalPreetam) November 3, 2017

There’s no difference for me whether whatsapp is down or not, the only messages that I get is from groups that I’ve muted for a year 🙃

— shad. (@ShadiqJamaludin) November 3, 2017

Two min silence for those :-
1. who uninstalled WhatsApp and installed again
2. Restart phone again and again.#WhatsAppDown ;__;

— Mayank 🌚 (@Cg_ka_chhora) November 3, 2017

On a positive note, we are spared from the family group discussions and fake news and videos sent on the group #WhatsAppdown

— Karan Shah (@Karan_J_Shah) November 3, 2017

This moment when WhatsApp doesn’t work so you try to remember how to send an actual text #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/KXyr77MTYO

— :) (@musicleadsus) November 3, 2017

PSA: Whatsapp is down. I repeat Whatsapp is down #panic #withdrawalsymptoms #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/Fj4VtBlq4Q

— Mr.Fox Agency (@mrfoxagency) November 3, 2017

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