London – WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered outages in parts of Europe, America and Canada for a short period on Thursday, leaving people unable to send or receive messages.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
“We’ve restored service back to 100 percent for everyone and we apologize for the inconvenience,” a WhatsApp spokesman told Reuters.
He, however, did not provide details on what led to the outage, which began shortly after 4.30 p.m. UK time on New Year’s eve.
The problems were primarily centered in the UK and Western Europe, according to DownDetector, a website that provides realtime overview of Internet and mobile services.
As of 2:50 pm est my whatsapp is down!
its the best think ever happen we just need some peace of mind…
It was just an outage? Seriously? I thought the world ended.