BREAKING! WhatsApp is down

<p><strong>WhatsApp has broken&comma; with users unable to send or receive messages&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The world’s most popular messaging app appears to have stopped working&comma; potentially affecting billions of users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The app would allow people to type messages to friends and then press send&period; But they then became stuck&comma; never actually delivering&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There did not appear to be any fix for the issue&comma; with restarting the app or using the web version also failing to work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It means that users are likely sending and being sent messages without them actually being delivered – potentially leading to problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The issues led to a huge spike of reports on outage tracking website DownDetector&comma; with users around the world reporting problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The issues appeared to begin around 8am UK time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WhatsApp does not maintain any official outlets to update users on outages&period; Unlike the rest of Meta&comma; it does not run an official status page&comma; and it has a Twitter account intended to document problems but has not used it since 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It also runs official Facebook and Twitter accounts&comma; but neither had been updated in response to the outage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WhatsApp is the biggest chat platform in the world&comma; with more than two billion monthly active users&comma; and the third biggest social platform after Facebook and YouTube&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; The Independent UK<&sol;p>&NewLine;