WhatsApp is currently suffering from downtime which has spanned over a couple hours now. The company’s status Twitter account confirmed the outage is due to some “server issues”.
https://twitter.com/wa_status/statuses/437319926605680640
Users trying to use the messaging app currently are unable to, as all they see is the “connecting” message (which never connects). The last time there was a major outage was last December.
Just two days ago Facebook acquired the popular messaging app for $16 billion. Is WhatsApp working for you right now?
Update: Spoke too soon, looks like the service is now back for most users.
https://twitter.com/wa_status/status/437358172983279616
Update Feb. 23: WhatsApp’s founder Jan Koum tells Reuters the reason for the outage was due to a network router:
“We are sorry about the downtime,” wrote Koum. “It has been our longest and biggest outage in years. It was caused by a network router fault which cascaded into our servers.”
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