The outage affected a number of countries, including India, Singapore, the UK and the US.
“We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today.
We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience,” a spokesperson from Meta told CNET.
Web outage reporting siteDown Detector showed a spike in reportsat about 3:17 a.m.
ET Tuesday with complaints highlighting issues sending and receiving messages or connecting to the server.
Although WhatsApp outages are not common, they tend to have worldwide implications.
