Users of Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp have taken to Twitter to complain about the app being unusable, with the platform down for about an hour now.
According to Down Detector, outages started being reported at around 6 pm AEDT.
In a post shared on Twitter at 6:17 pm AEDT, Down Detector asked for retweets if people were experiencing a problem.
User reports indicate Whatsapp is having problems since 3:17 AM EDT. https://t.co/cvGsWTfsWq RT if you’re also having problems #Whatsappdown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) October 25, 2022
At the time of publish, the post had 61 retweets, 46 likes and a handful of comments. Its website was showing over 3,000 reports. None of which clarified what was going on or why WhatsApp was down.
Gizmodo Australia can confirm that while the app was working for us, messages weren’t sending and up the top of the chat was an infinite loading loop. Via the web, it was much the same behaviour. Calls aren’t connecting either. The last big outage for WhatsApp was back in 2021.
The last post from WhatsApp on Twitter is about protecting privacy and there is nothing on the company’s website.
Anyway, while we wait on a diagnosis from Meta about the issue, here are some memes confirming that yes, WhatsApp is in fact down.
People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down#WhatsappDown pic.twitter.com/eGi25KiQhU
— Bella Ciao (Chai) (@punjabiii_munda) October 25, 2022
Relatable.
When your WhatsApp is playing up but you come to Twitter and see that everyone else is having the same problem #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/pMcJm0Zn56
— Jamie (@GingerPower_) October 25, 2022
Are Squid Game memes still a thing?
When WhatsApp is Down.#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/xHgsHd9h8v
— ɅMɅN DUВΞY (@imAmanDubey) October 25, 2022
And, finally:
Me after restarting my phone, putting it on airplane mode and uninstalling whatsapp and then coming to Twitter 😭#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/AlvH3aI5yZ
— Anjali (@Anjali_14_) October 25, 2022
That’s all we know for now, we’ll update you when we learn why WhatsApp went down.