Just 41 percent of messaging app users in the United States use the service, according to the data. The app is particularly popular in parts of Africa, Europe and South America, where it is used by more than 96 percent of messaging app users in some countries, according to Statista, a company that provides market data. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, lets users make calls and send text messages for free over the internet, has more than two billion users around the world. “We’ve fixed the issue and apologize for any inconvenience.” The statement did not specify the cause or extent of the problem. “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today,” Josh Breckman, a spokesman, said in a statement. Internet service outages are often restored within a few minutes or hours, but given WhatsApp’s size and position as an indispensable communication tool in many countries, every minute without access had added consequences. Eastern time, according to, which tracks internet disruptions, and users reported that services were back up after 5 a.m. In a statement, a WhatsApp spokesperson said: “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.LONDON - WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, was inaccessible to users in several countries around the world for about two hours on Tuesday morning, including Britain, India and South Korea. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms in the UK and around the world and is estimated to have more than two billion active users globally. The app has previously been identified as the communications tool of choice for MPs plotting against their leader, and Boris Johnson is said to have often been sent summaries of key Government information via the app during his time in Downing Street.Īfter opening the app on Tuesday morning, users have found that while they can still access their conversations, the app is failing to deliver new messages, or send any that they attempt to transmit.Ī persistent message is showing for many users at the top of the app, saying it is “connecting” to the server, but then appears to fail to do so, leaving users unable to send or receive any messages.Īccording to the service status website Downdetector, users began reporting issues with WhatsApp at just before 8am on Tuesday morning, with more than 12,000 reports of issues reported to the website by 8.30am. WhatsApp has confirmed it is aware of the issue and is working to fix the problem.Īmong the most concerned users of the app are likely to be Conservative MPs – the platform is a widely used tool among backbenchers, Cabinet ministers, and their aides to discuss public messaging and regularly gauge the mood of the Parliamentary party.Īnd on the day of a Cabinet reshuffle, many MPs hopeful of landing a ministerial job will currently be without a vital way of sounding out advisers and contacts on their own chances and the fate of their colleagues. Thousands have taken to social media to complain that they are unable to send or receive messages on the popular Meta-owned platform. Messaging platform WhatsApp has gone down for users across the UK, leaving Tory MPs without a crucial communications tool on the day Rishi Sunak enters office as Prime Minister and begins a Cabinet reshuffle.
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