WhatsApp says it has resolved technical problem
Published on: 2025-07-09 23:21:37
WhatsApp says it has resolved technical problem
"We know some people briefly had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp," a spokesperson told the BBC. "We've fixed the issue."
WhatsApp said the issues, largely impacting users' ability to send messages, had now been resolved.
Downdetector, a site which monitors platform outages, received more than 50,000 reports from users shortly after 15:30 GMT, which began to decline soon after.
Messaging service WhatsApp went down briefly on Friday afternoon, thousands of users reported.
Some users reported problems affecting Facebook and Facebook Messenger, but in much fewer numbers than WhatsApp.
The end to end encrypted messaging app, acquired by Meta in 2014, has nearly three billion users worldwide.
Meta's last mass global outage affected WhatsApp and Instagram in December.
The company's boss Mark Zuckerberg told investors at the end of January that the company was "making progress towards becoming the leading messaging platform in the US
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