Just hours after tweeting that it had handled a record 64 billion messages on the April Fools Day, the most popular cross platform messaging App, WhatsApp today suffered from its worst outage of 2014. WhatsApp was down for most mobiles and iPhones WhatsApp users are unable to send messages as the service kept trying to connect to the internet for several minutes, before finally sending a message to the recipient.





new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours.

— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) April 2, 2014







The Android and Windows Phone mobile users also reported that they were unable to send and receive messages instantly as they normally do. There were also reports of the messages being reported as sent from the user but the recipients did not get them for several minutes.