WhatsApp is down – News365.co.za

WhatsApp is down, in what appears to be an extended outage affecting both South Africa and many other parts of the world. Initially, users were seeing a single tick when attempting to send messages. By the time of publication, users were seeing the clock icon – indicating that messages were still being sent – and no messages appeared to be going through.

Some users attempting to use WhatsApp via a web browser saw the error message “Make sure your computer has an active internet connection”. Those with an open WhatsApp Web instance were confronted with the message “Retrying…”, and the invitation to click a link to retry.

The outage is affecting both person-to-person and group chats. WhatsApp did not immediately confirm the outage, or provide other details.

In October 2021, a little over one year ago, platforms owned by Facebook parent company Meta suffered a global outage, leaving WhatsApp down along with Facebook messenger.

In that instance, WhatsApp confirmed the outage by way of its Twitter account, and Meta also provided information by way of Twitter, much to the delight of that competitor.

Source: Sky news

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