WhatsApp Back Online After Brief Downtime, Everyone Panics

Many people reported that WhatsApp has stopped working for them.

S Aadeetya

03 Nov 2017, 03:29 PM IST

WhatsApp temporarily faced a global outage. But relax, it’s back up now.

Popular social messaging platform WhatsApp was temporarily down for users across the globe. According to a report, many users jumped over to social media to vent their frustration, and the outage was detected by an independent website called DownDetector.

The issue had reportedly been spotted on Friday morning in different parts of the world, and we wait for official word from the company on the seeming malfunction.

The popular social messaging app is working again in some regions. Not before it triggered a social media storm.

Twitter dutifully registered people’s panic.

WhatsApp down. Panic everywhere ð± pic.twitter.com/A5SXfRHMqH
— John van der Tol (@johnvandertol) November 3, 2017

How do you confirm that #WhatsApp is down? Just hop onto twitter and search for it 'cause its trending! ð #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/9KUOEU0WWB
— Akshadraj Godbole (@akshadraj) November 3, 2017

This moment when WhatsApp doesnât work so you try to remember how to send an actual text #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/KXyr77MTYO
— :) (@musicleadsus) November 3, 2017

Grab a seat. There is popcorn for those who came to Twitter to check if Whatsapp is down. #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/aGG3c2ZTDA
— Jay (@jvmenon) November 3, 2017

WhatsApp at the moment. #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/XMA08qkhEh
— Young Chairman. ð (@chmwhitelion) November 3, 2017

Switching between WiFi and 4G trying to get WhatsApp messages to send #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/rGCaS0NdML
— Kam (@Kamil_LFC94) November 3, 2017

First we used to check neighborhood from balcony to see if light has gone for everyone else too,Now we check twitter to see if #WhatsAppdown
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 3, 2017