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In recent years, WhatsApp has become the de-facto communication platform for personal and professional chats around the world. On Tuesday afternoon, the popular instant messaging app stopped functioning globally.
The app was inoperative not just on phones but its web version was also affected by the outage. People trying to connect to WhatsApp Web were greeted with an error message that urged them to check their computer’s internet connectivity.
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Tuesday’s glitch appears to be WhatsApp’s first major outage since the larger Meta outage on October 5, which interrupted Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram together. This collective disruption of major online portals had affected millions of users globally before the services were restored after a few hours.
WhatsApp’s parent company Meta has acknowledged the outage and that it is currently working on a fix. A Meta spokesperson told indianexpress.com, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible”.
