Meta restores WhatsApp services after hours of outage
Posted by Ahmed Iyanda | 2 years ago | 917 times
Popular messaging app WhatsApp stopped working for many users across the world, including in Nigeria as sending and receiving messages snagged. The services have been back for nearly two hours.
Nigerians and other users of the instant communication app, owned by Meta, had reported that they were unable to either receive or send messages. around 8:00am Tuestday(WAT).
During this time, users headed to other social media platforms like Twitter to lament the development. Both the mobile and web versions of the app experienced similar issues. But the services were restored around 10:00 am, just over two hours after the crash.
Users could not send messages to groups while personal messages only showed one tick which means that such messages were not delivered to the recipient. The WhatsApp status feature did not also function.
While the users could open the app and also access past conversations, new messages were not delivered.
According to Statista, there are about 32.9 million active social media users as of January 2022 with WhatsApp being the most popular platform used in the country, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram followed as the most used social media platforms in Nigeria.
