What works? WhatsApp users stunned as messaging network goes DOWN sending thousands to Twitter to complain
- More than 40,000 people reported problems with Whatsapp shortly before 10 p.m
- WhatsApp users said messages wouldn’t load and they couldn’t connect to it
- Most problems were reported in London, Manchester and Birmingham
Thousands of WhatsApp users reported the popular messaging service was down tonight.
More than 40,000 Britons reported problems with the service just before 10pm on Thursday – with similar reports from countless others around the world.
The cause of the problem is unclear, but some users have reported that they cannot connect to the service.
Others said they couldn’t send messages, while others said the app just wouldn’t load.
More than 40,000 Britons reported problems with WhatsApp just before 10pm on Thursday
Baffled users took to Twitter to complain about the outage.
It appeared to be affecting users across the UK, while foreign language data sites were also reporting problems.
Most problems were reported in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
More than 500 million people use WhatsApp, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s meta.
In response to the issues, one user wrote, “Yes WhatsApp is down again.”
Another revealed: “I realized WhatsApp was down after restarting my wifi 50 times and uninstalling the app 6 times.”
WhatsApp tweeted: “You may be experiencing some issues with WhatsApp at this time.
“We are aware of this and are working to get things running smoothly again. We will keep you updated and in the meantime thank you for your patience.”
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were shut down for almost seven hours in a massive global outage last year.
Due to issues, users were unable to access the three platforms, as well as Facebook Messenger and Oculus.
Facebook, which owns all the services, blamed the outage on a botched server update and insisted it wasn’t an attack from outside the company.