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As WhatsApp, WhatsApp Web suffer a brief outage in India, it unleashes a Twitter storm

WhatsApp's parent company Meta acknowledged the outage, but have not released any official statement on the issue.

Deeksha Devadiga

Published Oct 25, 2022 | 3:20 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 25, 2022 | 3:20 PM

As WhatsApp, WhatsApp Web suffer a brief outage in India, it unleashes a Twitter storm

Communication App, WhatsApp down for many users across the country. (Creative Commons)

WhatsApp, the popular communication app owned by Meta, was briefly down on Tuesday, 25 October, affecting its almost 600 million users in India.

Many users reported issues with sending and receiving messages on the communication platform that is not just used by individuals but businesses as well, and has grown to be an integral part of how Indians communicate with each other at the official and personal levels.

The outage happened around 03.17 EDT, or around 12.47 India time. However, the app was back on track a little after 2 pm.

Many users reported issues with sending and receiving messages on the platform. (Screengrab/downdetector.in)

Outage detection website DownDetector took to Twitter to confirm that many users across the world were unable to use the platform.

The website mentioned the major cities affected by the outage — Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Kolkata — but millions of users in other parts of the country likely faced technical difficulties.

No official word yet

Newswire ANI reported that WhatsApp’s parent company Meta acknowledged the outage and was working to fix the issue.

Thousands of users from all parts of the country are facing difficulties.(Screengrab/downdetector.in)

Meta, however, had not released any official statement at the time of writing this report. WhatsApp was also yet to release any statement explaining the reason for the sudden outage.

Twitter gets overloaded with memes

Many users took to Twitter to complain and raise issues against the communication app. With this many users also started sharing funny memes and jokes and started trending #whatsappdown on Twitter.

See funny memes and jokes here:

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