WhatsApp Outage Disrupts Messaging for Thousands Worldwide

Users report connectivity issues and undelivered messages as #WhatsAppDown trends on social media.

WhatsApp experienced a major outage on Friday evening, leaving thousands of users unable to send or receive messages.
Outage tracking site DownDetector recorded over 4,400 reports of issues globally, with users in the US particularly affected.
Meta, WhatsApp's parent company, has not yet issued a statement addressing the cause of the outage.
The disruption prompted users to flock to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where #WhatsAppDown quickly became a trending topic.
The outage follows a similar disruption on workplace communication platform Slack just one day earlier, raising questions about service reliability.