WhatsApp Is Down for Users in India and Other Regions

Highlights

WhatsApp appears to be down for many users across the world
Twitter users are tweeting out their dismay
Crowd-sourced service outage site is reporting problems as well

WhatsApp appears to be down for a wide number of users across the world. Users from different countries are reporting problems on Twitter with the hashtag #whatsappdown. We're facing problems in India as well, with no messages going through, and navigating to the Help > Contact Us section is showing some users an error message.

"Our service is experiencing a problem right now. We are working on it and hope to restore the functionality shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience."

Crowd-sourced service outage site, Down Detector, is also showing problems, with cases being reported across the world starting from about 1pm IST.

This appears to be the third major disruption of the year, with one as recently as August affecting users across the worldas well. Prior to that, the Facebook-owned service suffered an outage twice within two weeks, in May.

We've reached out to WhatsApp to comment on the outage, and will update this copy once we hear back.

As we mentioned, WhatsApp users are taking to Twitter to vent their dismay, and it is currently the number one Twitter trend in India. The widespread outrage goes to show just how pervasive these services have grown. The service has 1 billion daily active users, and 1.3 billion monthly active users, as per the figures it shared back in July.