WhatsApp Outage Affects Over 192,000 Users in India, UK, and Brazil: Downdetector Report

According to data from Downdetector.com, a leading outage tracking website, WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta Platforms, encountered significant issues on Wednesday, resulting in thousands of users reporting problems with the messaging platform in various countries.

The outage affected a substantial number of users, with over 30,000 users in India, over 67,000 in the United Kingdom, and 95,000 in Brazil reporting issues.

In total, there were over 17,000 incidents of users reporting problems with WhatsApp on Downdetector.

Downdetector gathers status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, to track outages.

However, Meta Platforms did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters regarding the cause of the outage or the steps being taken to resolve the issue.

In summary, WhatsApp, a Meta Platforms-owned messaging app, experienced a global outage on Wednesday, with over 192,000 users in India, the United Kingdom, and Brazil reporting issues on Downdetector.

Meta Platforms has yet to comment on the cause or resolution of the outage.