The Internet has been in absolute chaos for nearly two hours as WhatsApp, the messaging platform par excellence in the Western world, has 'gone down'. It is not the first time that it happens, but yes It is one of those that has lasted the longest and more territory seems to have affected of how many we have evidence in recent times. The result? Social media craze with thousands of users asking why the hell they couldn't send their messages anymore.
After 22:30 p.m. the first users began to report failures in the platform, which progressively spread throughout almost the entirety of Europe, America, Canada and other locations worldwide that stopped receiving a signal from the Facebook-owned company. At this moment, at 0:45 a.m. Spanish peninsular time, the service seems to have intermittences, operating at times and depending on where one is in the country. As far as we know, this is replicated in the rest of the affected countries.
WhatsApp, come back, we need you
It is in these moments of crisis when applications such as Telegram take the opportunity to gain momentum and increase their user base with those people who urgently need to cover their desire to communicate through their smartphone. Still, although this assumes small points in favor of these apps that continue to work when WhatsApp fails, the battle against the instant messaging giant is lost due to the huge user base it already has, making a hypothetical situation in which users switch platforms en masse almost impossible.
The only thing we can do at this time is to be patient and wait for the service ends up being fully restored, which should not take too long considering the team of people who will be working on it right now. In fact, the own Mark Zuckerberg He announced a few minutes ago through his Facebook account that they were at work.
So, you know, if you're still experiencing some kind of problem, don't panic!
