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Messaging work WhatsApp went down concisely connected Friday afternoon, thousands of users reported.
Downdetector, a tract which monitors level outages, received much than 50,000 reports from users soon aft 15:30 GMT, which began to diminution soon after.
WhatsApp said the issues, mostly impacting users' quality to nonstop messages, had present been resolved.
"We cognize immoderate radical concisely had occupation sending messages connected WhatsApp," a spokesperson told the BBC. "We've fixed the issue."
Some users reported problems affecting Facebook and Facebook Messenger, but successful overmuch less numbers than WhatsApp.
The end to extremity encrypted messaging app, acquired by Meta successful 2014, has astir 3 cardinal users worldwide.
Meta's past wide planetary outage affected WhatsApp and Instagram successful December.
The company's brag Mark Zuckerberg told investors astatine the extremity of January that the institution was "making advancement towards becoming the starring messaging level successful the US similar it is successful a batch of the remainder of the world".
In October, helium said much than 2 cardinal calls were happening globally connected the app each day.
But the standard of the app's idiosyncratic basal tin mean that immoderate glitches are felt by millions of users crossed the globe.
However, fewer of the caller method difficulties affecting Meta's apps person travel adjacent to mirroring the interaction of its outage successful 2021, which saw the company's apps spell down for astir six hours worldwide.
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