UPDATE: Tuesday (25.10.2022) 1.20 pm EAT
US tech giant Meta on Tuesday said it had resolved a major WhatsApp outage that prevented many of the billions of users of its popular service from connecting or sending messages.
WhatsApp, a free messaging service, crossed the threshold of two billion users worldwide in February 2020 and is one of the most popular apps.
Mammoth messaging app WhatsApp is down.
The popular social platform is dysfunctional as of 10: 30 AM on Tuesday, October 25. You currently cannot send or receive messages to groups, private messages are displaying one tick and you cannot see status updates or enjoy any of the perks that you ordinarily would whilst using the messaging app.
WhatsApp’s parent company Meta says they are working to restore the service “as quickly as possible”.
The hashtag #whatsappdown is one of the most trending on Twitter across the world on Tuesday, while millions of messages on Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram also flagging the outage.
As usual, Kenyans on Twitter are having a moment with the development. Here are sample tweets reacting to the app temporarily halting functionality:
Me waiting for WhatsApp to be back pic.twitter.com/aiGmxL7rWS
— Game_shaker___ (@Game_Shaker__) October 25, 2022
Whatsapp engineer right now pic.twitter.com/Gl9ODJtNCv
— BERANTAI 🔥 (@AbangBerantai) October 25, 2022
Team Whatsapp moving to Twitter pic.twitter.com/OeYXy3JkdE
— Kijana Ya Atwori 🔸 (@AtworiYa) October 25, 2022
Let’s take a break. Thanks WhatsApp. pic.twitter.com/i3rK0aJjHO
— Willis Raburu (@WillisRaburu) October 25, 2022
Meta — formerly known as Facebook — suffered an unprecedented outage last year affecting its leading social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
The duration and scale of the disruption to the four services used by billions of people led to a major incident described as one of the largest ever observed.