SINGAPORE - WhatsApp users in Singapore experienced a brief outage on Tuesday (Jan 26) morning.

According to network tracking site downdetector.sg, the mobile messaging app started having issues at 10.14am.

It received close to 600 reports of the outage, with users unable to send out messages.

The outage lasted almost half an hour before it was resolved at around 10.40am.

WhatsApp also suffered a brief outage lasting slightly over half an hour on New Year's Day at around 1am.

Last Monday (Jan 18), the popular app announced it would be dropping its US$0.99 (S$1.42) annual subscription fee and be made available for free.