The platform’s mobile application and web version were not working even with a seamless internet connection, with the latter only giving a ‘Retrying…’ error message at the top-left corner of the screen.
Users took to Twitter, as usual, to complain that the app was only allowing people to type messages to friends and then press send.
After that, however, the messages were stuck and never actually delivered.
The outage was being experienced in many parts across the globe and outage tracking website DownDetector recorded a spike in the number of problems recorded at 10AM.
These are some of the reactions of whatsapp users on Twitter…