WhatsApp crashed? App goes down this Wednesday – 04/03/2024 – Tech

The messaging application WhatsApp experienced instabilities this Wednesday afternoon (3). Reports that the service was down began to occur from 3 pm, according to the monitoring platform Downdetector. At 3:18 pm, the platform had already received 17,391 complaints.

Instagram and Facebook also reported access problems, as did the Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp Business versions.

All social networks are owned by Meta. The company was contacted, but has not yet responded to the company’s contact details. Sheet.

At around 3:35 pm, the services started working again for some users.

On X, formerly Twitter, the terms “whatss” and “returned” were among the most commented on during the afternoon.

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the platform, celebrated that traffic on the site reached its highest level during the instability of competitors.

The Downdetector platform registered at least 12 thousand reports in the United States, 20 thousand in India and 46 thousand in the United Kingdom. In Brazil, there were more than 42 thousand.

Last month, users spent more than two hours at a time without access to Facebook and Instagram.

(With Reuters)