After WhatsApp, now Facebook's Messenger hit by temporary outage

24 hours after Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger suffered a temporary outage in India and many other countries, the Messenger service too became inaccessible for a short period on Saturday

According to reports from multiple users on Twitter on Saturday a lot of accounts were not able to send or receive any messages. A few users reported that they cannot even see the older messages, but a few could see the message history.

 

On Friday, users in countries ranging from Brazil and Russia to Vietnam and Myanmar reported on social media that WhatsApp



was down in their countries. The extent of the outage and the reasons for it were not immediately known.

'Whatsappdown' was the top trending item on Twitter in India, which is WhatsApp's biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users. It was also a top trending item on Twitter in Pakistan, Britain, Germany and many other countries.

Users reported WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, had begun to gradually function again about 30 minutes after initial complaints of an outage appeared on social media.