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Those problems were particularly
focused in western Europe, the East
Coast of the US and South America,
according to the same website. But that
may simply be a result of timezones, and
the problems could be happening
elsewhere.
Users are reporting problems with
sending and receiving messages,
logging in or loading the app at all.
The chat app breaks less than some of
its competitors. But it has run into
problems in the past – including a major
outage that hit it on New Year’s Eve in
2015 .
Unlike other popular apps, WhatsApp
doesn’t maintain a status page to alert
users to when it is broken. It has a
Twitter account intended for doing so
but hasn’t used it since 2014, despite
having more than two million follows.
Messaging service WhatsApp went
down worldwide on Wednesday
afternoon.
“WhatsApp is aware of the issue and
working to fix it as soon as possible,” a
WhatsApp person told Business Insider
in an email.
The Facebook-owned messaging app
stopped working sometime around 4:50
PM EST, and as of 5:54 PM EST on
Wednesday, service had not yet been
restored to WhatsApp users.
The outage occurred just as Facebook’s
senior management was on a quarterly
earnings conference call with Wall Street
analysts and investors, but it went
unmentioned.
WhatsApp users immediately took to
Twitter to voice their frustrations:

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