An outage found in using WhatsApp on Friday in India. Millions of users were finding issues in sharing stickers, GIF, audio, and so on. But the problem doesn’t stop here, some of the users also reported that their privacy settings have been changed. Their last seen status has been switched to nobody without any intervention of themselves. They also found that WhatsApp has stopped showing online and typing tags with the contacts. Reporting of the outage issue was started on Twitter. Many of the users were found tweeting for the same.
According to Downdectetor.com, the issue started in the evening around 4 PM. Not only India, many countries like the UK, the US, Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia were affected by the same. As per its report, 64 percent of the users have reported their problems with last seen privacy change in their iOS or Android smartphones, 26 percent of the user population complained about connection issues and 8 percent of users got problems to log in to the app. According to the report by India TV, BeetelBite had reported about the issue first. Near about 8,246 reports registered to Twitter about the issue till now.
Downdectector.com is a website that keeps giving tracks about other services. Whenever outages found in any internet service or website service or application services like Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, the tracking graph gets a spike and it gets red. As per the website outage map, the issue is faced by Mexico, India, Singapore, and other regions also. Following the same map, the information comes up that in April, WhatsApp faced some issues.
As per the previous records,
Facebook and Instagram went down in the UK for both mobile and PC in the first week of April.
The same problem raised in North and South America along with Europe on April 2, here also millions of users were unable to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.
Various parts of the world dealt with the outage problem of Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. On Instagram, users were not able to send direct messages, on June 16.
There are different kinds of interpretations coming in by the users about the error. Such outages happen when some issues remain on the server-side. One reason popularly coming in that maybe the activity tracker system of WhatsApp got crashed due to overload. Some users thought it as bug hid to their phone but it has now become a worldwide problem. Firstly the users thought the issue to be a new update of WhatsApp which has stopped showing last seen. But later on, they identify it when it fails to change the settings. WhatsApp calculates the last seen relying on online status. As per the suspicion, the activity tracker system got crashed. So this might be the cause behind not showing the last seen.
WhatsApp and Instagram all are owned by Facebook. Though till now no response has come from the company nor have replied to any tweets or any other posts. A WhatsApp tracking fan website, WABetainfo.com said WhatsApp is restoring the service, the issue will be fixed soon. It is expected that this technical glitch will be resolved in 2-3 days as the report says the company has started working on the restoring.
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