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was briefly down Tuesday, with users unable to send or receive messages on the Facebook-owned end-to-end encrypted messaging app.
Affected users may have seen that WhatsApp was “connecting” to the service when trying to send a message. The outage started at about 4pm ET but appeared to be working again by 4:30pm ET.
WhatsApp failing to connect to its servers. (Image: TechCrunch)
We don’t know much more at this stage. A spokesperson for
did not immediately comment on the outage. We’ll update when we know more.
WhatsApp hit the 2 billion user mark
earlier this year
. Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014 in what became one of the social media giant’s biggest purchases.
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