WhatsApp is down: Meta’s messaging app doesn’t work in various parts of the world [Actualizado]

WhatsApp, Meta’s instant messaging application, has stopped working in various parts of the world. The users indicated through or other platforms such as Twitter that can’t send and receive messages. When trying to use the application, both on iOS and Android, the legend “Connecting…” appears. If you try to send a message, it simply does not reach the recipient and the waiting icon in the form of a clock is displayed next to it instead of the checks gray and blue of sent, delivered and read.

Downdetector, the platform that allows users to report and check the status of different applications and services, notice the fall of the most popular messaging application in the world, which is not working in any of the available ways (mobile applications, application for computers and web page). User reports about problems with WhatsApp began to multiply around 9:53 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time); they exceed 6,000 and continue to increase.

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The official communication channels of the company, for the moment, have not made reference to the problems that the application is having. WhatsApp Status account (@wa_status) on Twitter has been inactive for a while. Another service account, WhatsApp (@WhatsApp), He hasn’t posted about it either.. Consequently, at this time it is an absolute unknown what is really happening. In the world of web services and applications, however, multiple scenarios can occur that result in a general crash.

Meta has provided some clues in the status panel of your business services. “We are currently experiencing a major outage affecting the receipt of incoming messages and the delivery of messages on WhatsApp. We will provide another update within 1 hour or sooner if additional information is available,” they have indicated. In this way, it has been confirmed that the application’s business API is also failing, as well as all the commercial functions related to WhatsApp Business.

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In 2021, let’s remember, several applications from the Meta conglomerate (Facebook at the time) suffered a veritable hell when a general outage affected their operation on a global scale. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, among others, were down for more than six hours, in a ruling that produced significant economic losses. The problem had originated in one of the parts that make up the company’s infrastructure, and that required on-site adjustments in one of the data centers to solve it.

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