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WhatsApp down: Major outage hits messaging services globally

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The Times Of Indiapublisher-detail-arrow
12th April, 2025 20:11 IST
WhatsApp services have been affected by a disruption, leaving hundreds of users unable to connect, send messages across both the mobile application and the web-based platform.

Downdetector, a website that monitors the status of online services, registered a substantial increase in user complaints. In India alone, about 3,000 reports have logged, with more than 90% of these citing issues with sending messages. The remaining reports indicated server connection problems and general app malfunctions.

At the time of this report, some members of The Times of India's technology team confirmed they were experiencing difficulties sending messages on both the WhatsApp application and WhatsApp Web.

Globally, approximately 2,800 users reported similar issues, with 91% citing message sending problems, 6% reporting app issues, and 3% experiencing problems in receiving messages. Meta , the parent company of WhatsApp, has not yet released an official statement to explain the cause of the widespread service disruption.

People flood social media with memes
People started to flood social media platforms are flooded with reports detailing the inability to establish connections and send messages through WhatsApp's app and web versions.

Everyone rushes to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down!



Is WhatsApp down ?

I have been trying to upload the status but it couldn’t. #WhatsApp #whatsappdown


Cannot send messages to group.. whats app down ?


#whatsappdown
Whatsapp down users now😂😂😂😂

WhatsApp down?
Not able to send messages in ANY GROUP chat.
You guys also facing same problem?

People trying to post on@X regarding Whatsapp down in India be like:
#whatsappdown

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