WhatsApp Back Online After Global Outage Hits Users

WhatsApp Back Online After Global Outage Hits Users
A 3D printed Whatsapp logo on a keyboard in front of binary code in this illustration taken on Sept. 24, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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BENGALURU/STOCKHOLM—Messaging app WhatsApp was starting to come back online at 0900 GMT and the company said the issue has been fixed after users across the world reported problems earlier on Tuesday.

At around 0750 GMT, outage reporting site Downdetector had shown over 68,000 users had reported problems with the app in the United Kingdom. Problems were reported by 19,000 people in Singapore and 15,000 people in South Africa, as well.