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New Year's Day 2018: WhatsApp Services Restored After Brief Outage

By Reuters | Updated: 1 January 2018 09:57 IST
New Year's Day 2018: WhatsApp Services Restored After Brief Outage
Highlights
  • Global outage lasted for about an hour
  • In India, app was down a few minutes past midnight
  • Users in other countries also complained of outage on social media
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WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed.

"WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved", a WhatsApp spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. The cause of the outage, about an hour long, was not immediately known.

In India, its biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users, the app was down just a few minutes past midnight into the new year.

Users in other countries also complained of outages on social media.

© Thomson Reuters 2017

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