Panic! Despair! Switch to Facebook Messenger!…Ah, I see what you did there, Facebook. Mobile messaging application WhatsApp is this morning experiencing its second major outage since Facebook bought the company in February for $19 billion. According to TechCrunch tipsters, reports on Twitter and DownDetector.com, the service has been experiencing issues for roughly an hour, at least in some parts of the world, though we’re working to confirm this right now with the company, which has yet to provide an official update on the situation via its WhatsApp Status Twitter account.
DownDetector.com, a site that monitors web companies outages, reports that WhatsApp has been having issues since 8:34 AM ET.
And while I’m joking about Facebook’s involvement here – obviously they don’t want to lose users on a platform they bought for mobile messaging market share – it’s always funny to see the conspiracy theories roll in:
Users report seeing a system status message which reads, “Sorry, our service is experiencing a problem right now. We are working on it and hope to restore the functionality shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
I like that they apologized twice.
WhatsApp’s previous outage lasted 210 minutes, to give you an idea of how quickly the company could come back from your typical server failure. We should know soon, however, if today’s outage is something more serious. Stay tuned.
more details:tech crunch
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