Nevertheless, another widespread outage has not been reported to date. The company also specified that a Domain Name System error caused the outage. Back then, Mark Zuckerberg apologized to users for the inconvenience they faced. The service was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion. To recall, WhatsApp faced a major outage in October 2021, along with other apps such as Instagram and Facebook. WhatsApp’s is used by more than 1.2 billion people around the world and is a key tool for communications and commerce in many countries. ![]() Many users switched to rival system Telegram, which has picked up millions of customers in Brazil after two previous WhatsApp outages resulting from court orders. ![]() In Brazil, where the professional class relies heavily on the messaging service, WhatsApp was down for about two and a half hours. It affected people who use the service on Apple Inc’s iOS operating system, Alphabet Inc’s Android and Microsoft Corp’s Windows mobile OS. WhatsApp was down in parts of India, Canada, the United States and Brazil, according to Reuters journalists. Stop lights will be off or flashing red and should be treated. ![]() We have now fixed the issue and apologise for the inconvenience,” WhatsApp said in an email late Wednesday afternoon. RBPD is aware there is a power outage in the city at the moment no known ETA on restoration. “Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to access WhatsApp for a few hours. ![]() (Reuters) - WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said. FILE PHOTO: A Whatsapp App logo is seen behind a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone that is logged on to Facebook in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, February 20, 2014.
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