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WhatsApp users were up in arms on Friday morning as the messaging service went down across the globe for 45 minutes.
The service failed at around 8.30am – showing just a buffer wheel and a “connecting” message when users tried to get online.
The Facebook-owned service has more than a billion users around the world – many of whom were affected by the issue.
The UK was hit, as well as Russia, South Africa, parts of India, Malaysia, Spain and Germany, according to Downdetector.co.uk.
In response, thousands took to Twitter to express their dismay at the interruption to their social lives.
Whatsapp is down. A billion people look up from their phones for the first time in 7 years. Everything seems so modern.
— innocent drinks (@innocent) November 3, 2017
For a moment I thought I was boring that the my friends are angry at me😭Then I realised that Whatsapp is downThanks to Twitter pic.twitter.com/WiaPUGSBxi
— Sefularo Keamogetswe (@Sefularo_Keamo) November 3, 2017
#whatsappdown 2 mins of silence for those who uninstalled and then installed WhatsApp again #WhatsAppDown 😂😂
— Lovedeep Singh (@_lovemaan_) November 3, 2017
#whatsappdown. WhatsApp down. The era of mailing letters is back. My friends please send me your postal address.
— Tich Dande (@tichd2015) November 3, 2017
But users were in higher spirits when the service returned at around 9.15am.
#WhatsAppDownWhatsApp is Back.. Rt if it works for u pic.twitter.com/g7PMqOM95p
— Joseph Raja VJ 🌝 (@RajaGaneshVj1) November 3, 2017
WhatsApp is back up and running pic.twitter.com/SwmF3eXEw7
— Blake (@KBlake1007) November 3, 2017
And all was right with the world again.
At the time of writing however, the messaging service was still to comment on the cause of the outage.
