Messaging service WhatsApp goes down on same day it boasts of record usage
THE same day it boasted of a new daily record for messages sent and received, internet messaging service WhatsApp has gone down.
Frustrated users from across the world have reported problems with WhatsApp.
Many have reported problems on Twitter, including irritated users from Spain, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia, amongst others.
Timeline now :
Whatsapp down.
Whatsapp down.
Whatsapp down.
Whatsapp down.
Whatsapp down.
— nine more days hehe. (@weathergirlgirl) April 2, 2014
Why is @WhatsApp down again? Ever since you sold out to @facebook things have been going wrong..Sort it out!!!
— Hicham Felter (@hpfelter) April 2, 2014
new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours.
— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) April 2, 2014
WhatsApp's official Twitter account has not provided a status update, since its last major outage at the end of February
Yesterday WhatsApp, which was recently bought for $19billion (£11.4bn) by social networking giant Facebook, hit a record high for messages sent and received in 24 hours.
Beating a previous high from New Year's Eve, 64 billion WhatsApp messages were handled in just 24 hours.
During the course of Tuesday, 20 billion messages were sent by users and 44 billion received.
WhatsApp's official Twitter account has not provided a status update, since its last major outage at the end of February.
At the time, users linked problems to the company's recent purchase by Facebook, despite WhatsApp confirming they were continuing to operate "independently" of the social network.