HIGHLIGHTS
WhatsApp appears to be down for many users across the world
Twitter users are tweeting out their dismay
Crowd-sourced service outage site is reporting problems as well
WhatsApp appears to be down for a wide number of users across the world. Users from different countries are reporting problems on Twitter with the hashtag #whatsappdown. Some of us are facing problems in India as well, with no messages going through, and navigating to the Help > Contact Us section is showing some users an error message (seen above).
"Our service is experiencing a problem right now. We are working on it and hope to restore the functionality shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Crowd-sourced service outage site, Down Detector, is also showing problems, with cases being reported across the world starting from about 1pm IST. Notably, WhatsApp appears to working intermittently for some users, while services are up and running for others despite showing the above error message.