WhatsApp's beta version 2.24.24.5 reportedly causes a green screen issue, making the display unresponsive
The WhatsApp outage had impacted thousands of users in India, the United Kingdom and Brazil, according to Downdetector data
According to Downdetector website nearly 29,000 reports were flagged by users on the WhatsApp outage
People around the world are reporting problems sending and receiving messages on the popular chat app WhatsApp. According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, people started reporting problems around 3 a.m. EDT. A WhatsApp spokesperson said the company is aware that some people are having trouble sending messages and is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Meta, previously known as Facebook, bought WhatsApp in 2014. It's wildly popular especially outside of the US, where many people use it for everyday communication.
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Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online
"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India
India is WhatsApp's biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users