WhatsApp appears to be facing an outage • TechCrunch

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging app with over 2 billion users, appears to be facing an outage, according to users. DownDetector and WaBetaInfo, two web services that track the Facebook app, have confirmed the outage.

The outage began about 12.20 AM PT, according to user complaints. DownDetector shows that users in the U.S. and India are mostly impacted by the outage. India is the largest market of WhatsApp by users.

Meta’s web services status page is yet to acknowledge an outage with WhatsApp.

Users are seeing several errors accessing WhatsApp, including the app’s inability to connect to the server.

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