After hours of outage, Meta Inc’s product, WhatsApp, is now back online, much to the relief of billions of users around the world.
All of Meta’s other products–Facebook, Instagram–are also functioning properly. This writer has just sent and received messages on WhatsApp to confirm that the platform is fully back on.
At least people from almost every region of the world reported the outage which hit Nigeria, Africa, and the rest of the world around 7 am, Tuesday, October 25.
More than 12,000 outage reports were posted within half an hour, according to the service status website, Down Detector.