Popular messaging platform WhatsApp was down for several users late on Tuesday, 22 January.
Users took to Twitter to complain they were having issues with the app when WhatsApp went down across the globe.
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Both IPhone, Android users from the UK, France, the Middle East and India were all tweeting to say their messages weren’t sending this evening.
Messages failed to send and the app would not load, according to affected users.
Meanwhile, people are trolling about it on Twitter;
#WhatsApp down. pic.twitter.com/cYvPTsYu75
— Libretto_distruzione (@labuzzy2507) January 22, 2019
Reaction of some people when #WhatsApp was Down : pic.twitter.com/nJzv7sxHXv
— Akshit Sharma (@ShrmaGka_Ladka) January 22, 2019
So What’s up with #WhatsApp??
I hear WhatsApp was DOWN and some of us didn’t even realise WhatsApp was DOWN. Is WhatsApp UP now?? 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/KWrYgWt4FI— JN SHINE™ (@ItsJnShine) January 22, 2019
#WhatsApp Down pic.twitter.com/zjIrPjG45l
— Fariha Shaikh (@FarihaShaikh12) January 22, 2019
Many pleaded with the app to resolve the issues ‘quickly’ and it was working for most people again within half an hour.
The app has recently limited the number of people who can forward messages, for instance, in the hope to stop the spread of misinformation.
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