WhatsApp messenger down for some users in India

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger was down for some users in India, according to user accounts on Facebook and Twitter on Friday afternoon.

Users in other countries also reported a WhatsApp outage on social media. The extent of the outage was not immediately known, and Facebook was not immediately reachable for a comment.

India is WhatsApp’s biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users. 

Twitter users had some hilarious things to say as WhatsApp was down:

500 people in India have already died because Whatsapp is down and they couldn't forward a chain message to 10 people. #WhatsappDown

— Anshu Mor (@anshuMor) November 3, 2017

BREAKING: Family members come face to face and have a tearful reunion in almost a decade thanks to #whatsappdown

— Faking News (@fakingnews) November 3, 2017

Whatsapp was down for few minutes and suddenly the unemployment rate amongst Indian uncles rose by 1000 times. #WhatsappDown

— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) November 3, 2017

This employee must now have joined WhatsApp. #WhatsAppDown https://t.co/mCWgNdqHob

— Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) November 3, 2017

The reason for #WhatsAppDown could be an Indian engineer working there. His girl blocked him and he went 'le phir, main block to sab block'

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 3, 2017