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LAST UPDATE | 25 Oct 2022
INTERNET MESSAGING SERVICE WhatsApp has come back online for many users after a service outage knocked the popular messaging app offline for around two hours on Tuesday morning.
The Meta-owned platform has not yet confirmed the cause of the fault but had told users earlier that it was working to fix it.
Many took to social media this morning to complain that they were unable to send or receive messages on the platform.
After opening the app, users found that while they could still access their conversations, the app was failing to deliver new messages, or send any that they attempted to send.
A persistent message was showing for many users at the top of the app, saying it is “connecting” to the server, but then appears to fail to do so, leaving users unable to send or receive any messages.
According to the service status website Downdetector, users began reporting issues with WhatsApp at just before 8am on this morning, with more than 12,000 reports of issues reported to the website by 8.30am.
The outage inspired some tongue-in-cheek comments on social media.
Tranquil@, si no recibes mensajes de #WhatsApp no es que te haya abandonado el mundo, es que hay una caída de servicio...pero seguro que podemos hablar con los nuestros...incluso cara a cara
— Guardia Civil 🇪🇸 (@guardiacivil) October 25, 2022
😀😀😀#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/oThPKPYxzr
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms in Ireland and around the world and is estimated to have more than two billion active users globally.
The messaging platform apologised to users for the outage.
“We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today,” a spokesperson for the platform said.
“We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience.”
With reporting by PA.
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The picture of the priest holding the handkerchief is such an ionic moment of my youth and all the horrific atrocities that the people of Northern Ireland had to encounter.
For myself who lived way down in the South I was in Belfast last summer and did the black taxi tour. Standing at some of the scenes and monuments frightened me thinking back to those awful times.
Please god may we never go back to those days.
As a 13 year old at the time I remember going into school the next morning, two black flags with a white 13 stiched onto them were hanging from the basketball ring in the small school yard. The 6th year boys had put them up early that morning. In a moment they had captured the mood. A lasting impression.
The mindset of hate against The Irish who would not submit was/is the core problem. Hopefully this mindset is going.
Not long before this atrocity the Anti Catholic Pogroms took place – displaced refugees within their own country. Some of them ended up in our school – they became solid friends with us even though we had fun with their accents.
I was in Donegal in old manor House and the floor boards made a creeking noise and some body passed comment on workmanship he was probaly from northern ireland. Sad
@John O Connor: relevance !
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