WhatsApp services restored after being down for thousands of users; Twitter flooded with memes

Users on WhatsApp are unable to send and receive messages.

Tuesday October 25, 2022 , 1 min Read

Social media platform WhatsApp was down for users in India, according to people on Twitter and personally verified by YourStory.

Since then, services have been restored and should be available for all users soon.

At the time, users were unable to send or receive messages, either personally or in groups. This was apparently a global outage.

Twitter, predictably, broken out its best memes.

People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down#WhatsappDown pic.twitter.com/eGi25KiQhU
— Bella Ciao (Chai) (@punjabiii_munda) October 25, 2022

Me after restarting my phone, putting it on airplane mode and uninstalling whatsapp and then coming to Twitter 😭#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/AlvH3aI5yZ
— Anjali (@Anjali_14_) October 25, 2022

Meta said it is aware that "some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we're working to restore WhatsApp as quickly as possible."

DownDetector confirmed WhatsApp is down. Its heat map showed cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow and Kolkata were the worst affected, but the outage seemed to be countrywide.