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WhatsApp is down and everyone is losing their shit over it

Published 22:27 3 May 2017 BST

Updated 21:01 4 May 2017 BST

Alan Loughnane
WhatsApp is down and everyone is losing their shit over it

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Relax people, it'll be back at some stage...

Popular messaging app WhatsApp appeared to go offline around 9pm on Wednesday evening. People have been unable to send or receive messages on the app, with no statement issued from the messaging app over the outage. Website Down Detector shows that much of Europe, the US and South America have suffered outages while there's been some reports on the site from Dublin as well. When users attempt to send a message now, they're faced with the timer symbol rather than the customary ticks of a sent message. For all those worrying, she probably is trying to reply to you at this instant and she does actually like and is completely not ignoring your messages... probably. People have been losing their shit on social media over the drop in service... https://twitter.com/Tweet_Dec/status/859880890234699776 https://twitter.com/AxitMehta/status/859880985915252737 https://twitter.com/judith0017/status/859880904352833536 https://twitter.com/kiaraloughran1/status/859880885847511045 https://twitter.com/LauraBagnall92/status/859880106709397506 https://twitter.com/mynor_veliz/status/859880869460398082 Don't listen to this girl... she probably is trying to message you. https://twitter.com/Niamh_Maher/status/859880979590152194

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WhatsApp is down and everyone is losing their shit over it