WhatsApp messaging service returns after global outage
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WhatsApp suffered a global outage for about an hour.
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(REUTERS) - WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday (Dec 31) before the problem was fixed.
"WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved", a WhatsApp spokesman said in an e-mailed statement.
The cause of the outage, about an hour long, was not immediately known.
In India, its biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users, the app was down just a few minutes past midnight into the new year.
Users in other countries also complained of outages on social media.
