People are freaking out that messaging service WhatsApp is down

Associated Press

Messaging service WhatsApp went down worldwide on Wednesday afternoon.

"WhatsApp is aware of the issue and working to fix it as soon as possible," a WhatsApp person told Business Insider in an email.

The Facebook-owned messaging app stopped working sometime around 4:50 PM EST, and as of 5:54 PM EST on Wednesday, service had not yet been restored to WhatsApp users.

The outage occurred just as Facebook's senior management was on a quarterly earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts and investors, but it went unmentioned.

WhatsApp users immediately took to Twitter to voice their frustrations:

Life is not the same without #WhatsApp #whatsappdown 😭😭😭

- Shawty B (@Shawtey_B) May 3, 2017

Bad times #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/FhuRUM8NhU

- Miss Campbell (@gillcampbell80) May 3, 2017

#whatsappdown ? no worries i'll just summon my carrier pigeon

- Stevie (@stevieweviee) May 3, 2017

What's up, @WhatsApp ? #whatsappdown

- Sarah (@xsarah87x) May 3, 2017

Just keeps doing this! Anyone else? #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/p6ErVoeYMb

- Savan Thammaiah (@SavanThammaiah) May 3, 2017

Whatsapp down, I repeat, whatsapp down!!! pic.twitter.com/BvWVIwfCNN

- ARISE☀ (@arisetolulope) May 3, 2017

I NEED YOU I NEED YOU I NEED YOU WhatsApp 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

- Coneja♥ (@Mily_Martinez_) May 3, 2017

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