By Our Reporter
Whenever WhatsApp crashes, it is a major deal around the world given that it is the most popular messaging app, with two billion monthly active users globally users.
And that is the case this Tuesday, with WhatsApp outages reported across the globe to start this October 25.
According to the monitoring service DownDetector, a number of users have reported issues with sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp in the early hours of Tuesday morning, specifically around 02:00 CDT.
It's certainly not the first time that WhatsApp has crashed, but the service is usually restored within just a few hours.
As the world's biggest messaging service, they have the numbers of staff to solve whatever the issue is. At least, that's usually the case.
The easiest way to check if WhatsApp is up and running again is to go on the app.
If it's not working, there will be a message saying "retrying", so if that's not there then it might be active again.
You can also visit a site like DownDetector to see the latest stats on the number of outage reports.
Whenever WhatsApp isn't working, the same kinds of memes come out, usually on Twitter.
In the past, a WhatsApp outage has sometimes coincided with a problem on other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, which are part of the same company, but this time they appear to be working.
Twitter is almost never affected in this way and that produced several widely shared memes, while the term WhatsApp is also currently trending on Twitter.
With Twitter working fine, that means it might also be worth paying attention to the WhatsApp Twitter account, in case their social media team share an update there.
And that is the case this Tuesday, with WhatsApp outages reported across the globe to start this October 25.
According to the monitoring service DownDetector, a number of users have reported issues with sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp in the early hours of Tuesday morning, specifically around 02:00 CDT.
It's certainly not the first time that WhatsApp has crashed, but the service is usually restored within just a few hours.
As the world's biggest messaging service, they have the numbers of staff to solve whatever the issue is. At least, that's usually the case.
The easiest way to check if WhatsApp is up and running again is to go on the app.
If it's not working, there will be a message saying "retrying", so if that's not there then it might be active again.
You can also visit a site like DownDetector to see the latest stats on the number of outage reports.
Whenever WhatsApp isn't working, the same kinds of memes come out, usually on Twitter.
In the past, a WhatsApp outage has sometimes coincided with a problem on other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, which are part of the same company, but this time they appear to be working.
Twitter is almost never affected in this way and that produced several widely shared memes, while the term WhatsApp is also currently trending on Twitter.
With Twitter working fine, that means it might also be worth paying attention to the WhatsApp Twitter account, in case their social media team share an update there.