The instant messaging service WhatsApp suffered a general fall this Wednesday in various parts of the world, as reported by the users themselves to through the Downdetector portal.
After this situation, from the platform they officially communicated in Twitter: “You may be experiencing some issues using WhatsApp right now.”
“We are aware and working to get things running smoothly once more. We will keep you informed and, in the meantime, thank you for your patience,” they closed from WhatsApp.
According to the site specialized in failures of these platforms, the complaints of malfunctions began at 17:18 (Argentine time). In addition, Internet users took to social networks to report that they might not send messages and that errors appeared in the connection.
Particularly when users send messages, The message “connecting” and a clock icon appear, but the content is not sent to its recipient.
“Worst outage we’ve had in years”
The last big crash of the app It happened on October 4 of last year, when the vast majority of the services of the Meta matrix were interrupted (formerly Facebook). At that time, applications such as Instagram, Messenger, among others, were not available for at least six hours.
Subsequently, the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckeberg released a statement lamenting the episode: “It was the worst outage we’ve had in years.”
As explained by the company’s vice president of engineering, Santosh Janardhan, the engineers would have issued a command that inadvertently disconnected Facebook’s data centers from the rest of the world.
“The outage was not caused by malicious activity,” he said. And he explained that “although all computer systems have commands that seek to tackle certain errors in time, the audit tool had an error and might not avoid the interruption.”