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WhatsApp is facing issues at present. Thousands of users of the platform are facing the problem and speaking out on twitter. Only in a few minutes of the app going down, there have been over 132k tweets around the world. There have been repeated complaints, messages tweets, memes on social media that they are unable to send or receive messages. The issue that is being reported that users’ notification has changed to “You have unsent messages on WhatsApp”.
#Whatsappdown is trending with #facebookdown and #instagramdown as the three entities owned by Facebook simultaneously face issues in a rare occurrence.
Users are also unable to use Instagram as well. So far, hundreds of thousands of users have reported receiving a "Couldn't Refresh Feed" message on the social media app.
Also, Facebook is not loading as well, with users reporting not being able to log in on refresh their feeds.
It is not the Internet or Wi-Fi; Instagram, Facebook also Down with WhatsApp
Many have claimed that when both the apps – Instagram and WhatsApp down, they first thought it was their internet or Wi-Fi; but other apps, including Twitter, Telegram, gaming apps, were working, they started checking on Downdetector and tweeting their issue. This issue is limited to Facebook-owned apps only and so far there are only speculations as to why this happened.
https://twitter.com/downdetector/status/1372964600581357573
Everything Facebook Owns is Down
WhatsApp or Instagram have not issued any statement on being down, but at least the statement will be up soon.
There can be a plethora of reasons for this outage, but there is no reason to speculate. Downdetector has also reported that both the apps have been down for half an hour now. Thus far, only the Facebook group – WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook itself- have not been working. The cause for the outage can be expected to be the main server for the three.
Update: WhatsApp is Up Again
WhatsApp seems to be up and out of the issues that it was facing at the moment. There have been no official statements from Facebook as of now.
https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1372981450325196800
Meanwhile, Twitter is having an absolute field day - or night, depending on where you are - with the memes and the jokes.