WhatsApp’s 450 million users unable to access the smartphone free-messaging service for several hours on Sunday

by [email protected] · February 23, 2014

WhatsApp’s 450 million worldwide users were unable to access the smartphone free-messaging service for many hours on Sunday (IST), days once Facebook declared it absolutely was lavishing up to $19 billion on that.

“Sorry we have a tendency to presently experiencing server problems. we have a tendency to hope to be keep a copy and recovered shortly,” WhatsApp aforesaid during a message on Twitter that was retweeted over 25,000 times in exactly a couple of hours and angry ridicule as a result of it comes thus shortly once Facebook’s hefty acquisition.

In the early hours of Sunday at regarding 1:30am IST, some WhatsApp users found they were unable to attach to the app, whereas others complained their messages weren’t inquiring.

WhatsApp didn’t say however long the outage lasted, however regarding a 2.5 hours later it tweeted once more to say: “WhatsApp service has been reconditioned. we have a tendency to compassionate the downtime”

Techcrunch instructed the matter may well be right down to “a surge of signups and usage that has overladen its servers” once the substance the app garnered following Facebook’s announcement on Wednesday.

Facebook is sporting large on mobile with the fulgurous cash-and-stock deal for WhatsApp, that was solely started 5 years past however has quickly mature as a free different to text messages.

It is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and comes but 2 years once the California-based web star raised $16 billion within the richest school sector public stock providing.

Neither WhatsApp nor Facebook were right away on the market for comment.

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