Now, their first taste of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been soured.Services owned by Facebook including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger faced a global outage at around 9:30PM IST, with people taking to Twitter to report outage with their Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp. Still, Facebook bought the startup for the astronomical sum in part because it is many people in the developing world’s first taste of the Internet.

Stumbles like this are somewhat common for fast-growing apps, and users aren’t likely to permanently switch away since it was fixed relatively soon. WhatsApp has suffered short downtimes every month or two for the last half-year. But today, being the biggest venture-backed acquisition in history worked against the messaging startup.

=> Īs I wrote Thursday, being acquired by Facebook could give WhatsApp the engineering backup to be able to fight outages in the future. They were met with memes joking that Facebook was shutting WhatsApp down, that its founders went on vacation, that there was a party in the server room, or Zuck himself was meddling with the app WhatsApp users flocked to Twitter asking “Is WhatsApp down?”. Some users reported that “last seen” stamps vanished from their conversations when WhatsApp first came back online, but now some say they’re appearing again.Īt 2:48pm PST, WhatsApp confirmed it was back up with this tweetĪround the same time, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum apparently told the Wall Street Journal via email that “we had a server outage, should be OK now.” WhatsApp started to work again for some users at 2:30pm PST after around 150 to 210 minutes of downtime. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly.” Users around the world reported that they were unable to send messages, and WhatsApp confirmed these problems at 12:16pm PST with a tweet stating “sorry we currently experiencing server issues. Update: WhatsApp experienced an outage for around 210 minutes today from 11am to 2:30 pm PST.

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