Whatsapp is down for a millions of users reported worldwide, with reports of increase in the number of people coming in from India, US, UK, Sri Lanka, Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
According to the resources, the problem came first in notice around 3:10 EDT in the morning and then grew over to hundreds of people reporting the issue.
Predictably, people have taken to Twitter in panic to express their dismay over what will undoubtedly be a temporary outage.
Switching between WiFi and 4G trying to get WhatsApp messages to send #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/rGCaS0NdML
— Kam (@Kamil_LFC94) November 3, 2017
Similar event occurred in early May, when it took hours rectify the problem and put it online back again.
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For now, the service’s 1.2 billion users will have to resort to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or good old fashioned text message, to reach their friends and family.
The company has not yet commented on the cause of the outage. More updates awaited.