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WhatsApp Restores Services After Longest Outage

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October 25, (THEWILL) – Instant Messaging Platform, WhatsApp, is back online after the longest outage it has ever faced.

THEWILL reported that the Messenger service was down for over 90 minutes on Tuesday morning.

The primary reason for the outage has not been disclosed by the company. However, they did ensure that they are working on restoring services.

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The WhatsApp outage impacted a vast number of users across Africa, Asia, Europe, America and others.

At its peak, there were over 66,000 reports of WhatsApp outage on Downdetector in Europe.

In a statement, WhatsApp acknowledged the major outage and the inconvenience it caused to thousands of users.

The spokesperson said, “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today. We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience.”

The outage was the longest the app has ever suffered. The effects of the outage are yet to be determined.

During the outage, all the concomitant services such as video calling, voice calling and even the Status feature had stopped functioning. The WhatsApp Pay feature, based on UPI was also down during the period.

In response to the outage, a Meta company spokesperson stated, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”

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