Whatsapp is down today in worldwide 2022

After a two-hour long, catastrophic worldwide outage, WhatsApp is back up. On Tuesday, WhatsApp was unavailable for roughly two hours in a number of nations across the world.

Whatsapp down worldwide

Meta employees worked through the night to locate and fix the problem. Around 2.10 a.m. Pacific Time, WhatsApp resumed operations, bringing relief to the billions of users and companies who depend on the instant messaging and telephony platform owned by Meta.

WhatsApp said that the problem had been resolved but declined to say what caused the outage. "We are aware that WhatsApp message sending was problematic today. We repaired the problem and are sorry for the trouble, "a Meta representative stated.

Early in the day, people around the world started to complain that they couldn't send or receive new messages, sign up for WhatsApp, update their profiles, or change their privacy settings.

Tens of thousands of users reported the outage to DownDetector, a web application that monitors service performance, when WhatsApp was unavailable. WaBetaInfo, which is a well-known WhatsApp tracking service, said that the problem was "server-side," which means that users couldn't fix it.

A representative for Meta told TechCrunch in the past that the company was trying to "immediately bring back WhatsApp for everyone."

Government officials, telecom service providers, and, of course, billions of individuals use WhatsApp, which has evolved into a crucial component of infrastructure in many regions. By 2020, the service was being used to send more than 100 billion messages every day, a record-breaking number in the sector.

As of the beginning of 2016, 60 billion messages per day were sent using Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp combined. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, stated in May 2020 that iMessage and FaceTime were seeing record usage, although he did not provide any numbers.

When Apple shared the data the prior time, it lagged well behind WhatsApp usage at the time (podcast). WeChat, which has more than 1 billion users overall, is also falling behind in terms of daily message volume.