Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger went down for about 10 to 20 minutes Friday, November 3, 2017, technically prevented users across the globe to connect meaning all the activities on the app also came to a standstill.

According to reports from multiple users on Facebook and Twitter Friday, users in countries ranging from Brazil and Russia to Vietnam and Myanmar said on social media that WhatsApp was down in their countries, as the messenger also suffered a temporary outage in India and many other countries including Nigeria

The extent of the outage and the reasons for it were not immediately known.

‘Whatsappdown’ was the top trending item on Twitter in India, which is WhatsApp’s biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users.

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