Whatsapp Outage: Why Were Services Unavailable? | Reasons Explained

– WhatsApp was down for nearly two hours on October 25. – WhatsApp-parent Meta said it was a "technical error" that caused the outage. – What caused the "technical error" remains unclear. – Outage detection website DownDetector also confirmed that WhatsApp was not working for many users across multiple regions.

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– Outage detection website DownDetector also confirmed that WhatsApp was not working for many users across multiple regions. – Due to the outage, users were unable to send messages or use services like WhatsApp audio and video call. – The Meta-owned company has now offered clarification (well, vaguely) about why its services were down worldwide.

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– WhatsApp Web, the apps web client which is used by many on their desktops and laptops, was also hit by the outage, but services for the web client have also now been restored. – During the outage, anyone trying to use the client was met with a connectivity error. – This was WhatsApp’s first major outage since the larger Meta outage on October 5, that took down WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook together, affecting millions of users.

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Whatsapp Outage: Why Were Services Unavailable? | Reasons Explained

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