WhatsApp, the messaging application owned by Meta, suffered an outage on Wednesday, April 3, according to the website Downdetector.com. This results in an inability to send messages, but also to receive them. Calls are also impossible.
About 12,000 U.S. users have reported issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by gathering status reports from a number of sources, including errors reported by users on its platform.
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More than 20,000 users in India, around 46,000 in the UK and more than 42,000 in Brazil have also reported issues with the platform, according to Downdetector data. Around 4,800 people also experienced issues with Instagram in the United States, according to Downdetector.
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Last month, hundreds of thousands of users of Meta's Facebook and Instagram sites were affected for more than two hours following an outage caused by a technical problem.