WhatsApp suffers a drop in its services | Technology

WhatsApp, Meta’s instant messaging service, has experienced malfunctions this morning. Between nine and nine thirty, Spanish peninsular time, it has been difficult to communicate through the application. According to the DownDetector website, specialized in detecting mishaps in services connected to the Internet in real time, the messages did not load and had problems being sent, as reported by many users. The aforementioned website has recorded more than 30,000 reports of bad service at half past nine, the time that marks the peak of incidents.

Subsequently, the services have worked normally for a while. But a little later, around 10, they have experienced shipping delays again. Around 11 in the morning, Spanish peninsular time, it seemed to work fine again. “We are aware that some people are having problems sending messages. We are working to restore the WhatsApp service as soon as possible. We have solved the problem and we apologize for the inconveniences that we may have caused, ”explained a spokesman for Meta, who has not given details of the reason for the fall.

The technology company has also not given data on how many countries have been affected by the problems. Complaints about its malfunctioning made on other social networks, such as Twitter, or communicated to DownDetector come from various countries, so the service outage is global.

WhatsApp is the most widely used instant messaging system in the world, with nearly 2 billion users. The company was acquired in 2014 by Meta (then Facebook), after spending 21.8 billion dollars. Despite the fact that the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, assured that the data of WhatsApp users would not be crossed with that of other companies in the group, such as Facebook or Instagram, Meta has taken steps in that direction, arousing complaints from the WhatsApp community. users.

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