WhatsApp Hit by Giant Global Outage

By Staff, Agencies

The WhatsApp messaging service was affected by a giant global outage since Tuesday morning 7:45 am GMT. User across the globe have reported problems.

The DownDetector website reported that it has seen a sudden increase in outage reports with several thousand warnings from email users.

Messages, photos, and videos were simply not sent to the recipient.

The Hashtag #WhatsAppDown is trending on social networks, especially on Twitter.

The Meta group, owner of WhatsApp, has not released a statement regarding the outage.

The group's other social networks such as Facebook and Instagram do not seem to be affected by the issue.