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People are freaking out that messaging service WhatsApp is down

Avery HartmansAug 25, 2024, 16:19 IST

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:

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