If you’re trying to access WhatsApp tonight you might find you’re not alone in having some serious issues. It seems the hugely popular chat app, which now has some 2 billion users, is having major troubles with thousands of reports that the service is down and not working.
Independent tracking website DownDetector, which monitors mentions across social media to track when web services are offline, is suggesting that thousands of WhatsApp users are currently experiencing the outage. In fact, at the time of writing, there are some 70,000 complaints that users can’t access the app.
It’s unclear exactly what is causing the issues but it also seems that Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are also in trouble with fans of these apps complaining that they can’t access the services.
Speaking on Down Detector’s forum page, one user said: “Help I urgently need to send a WhatsApp message regarding some news I received from India, what do I do ??”
Whilst another added: “All three apps are down Facebook insta and WhatsApp must be something up with the servers.”
Users have also flocked to social media to vent their frustrations with one fan saying: “WhatsApp and Instagram are down. So am I.”
Another tweeted: “WhatsApp Down and Instagram cannot refresh feed.”
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