Antonnate S. Mugodi.
Harare Zimbabwe (News of The South) – A lot of WhatsApp users have reported problems amid a global outrage.
Downdetector.co.uk has recorded a surge in reports about WhatsApp being down.
Mobile and web customers are saying it is not connecting when they try to send messages.
This mobile app is by far the largest messaging platform in the world with over two billion users.
The platform now appears to be working again for most people with the number of Down Detector decreasing from around 21:30pm last night (Tuesday).
Issues have been reported across the world, including vast swathes of Europe, the US, southern and central America, India and Australia.
WhatsApp users have also reported the chat app is stuck on the connecting screen and isn’t refreshing new messages.
WhatsApp is now trending on Twitter, with more than 321,000 tweets about the outage.
Twitter users have shared funny memes expressing their shock at the outage alongside the hashtag #whatsappdown.
At the peak of the outage so far Down Detector UK has registered over 6,000 reports of WhatsApp down.
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