Some two billion WhatsApp users were left without service on Oct. 25 as the biggest messaging application worldwide went offline. Meta, the owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, is yet to clarify what led to the outage.
Users took to social media platforms like Twitter to share hilarious memes about the outage, with many flocking to alternative social media platforms to find out if they were alone in their lack of service. A similar situation took place in October 2021, with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going down for more than 24 hours due to a “server configuration change.”
WhatsApp is down. #Bitcoin never goes down.
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) October 25, 2022
This time around, the outage was fairly short-lived, with WhatsApp restoring messaging services within a few hours of the initial outage. Nevertheless, questions about alternative messaging applications came to the fore once again.
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