Whatsapp appears to be down across the world (Picture: downdetector)

There was panic across the planet today after WhatsApp went down this morning.

People were unable to send messages to one another as the service continued to say ‘connecting’ with the wheel of death showing for most people.

Immediately after checking with their friends to see if WhatsApp was out of action people went straight to Twitter to confirm whether it was true or not.

According to DownDetector there were problems across Europe but it appears as thought it could be a global problem.


Users in India, Singapore, Mozambique, Vietnam, and Iraq also reported that they could not access the service.



People had to revert to their normal messaging services and Facebook as they struggled to cope with what was happening.

A normal service was resumed soon after 9am.

WhatsApp’s official Twitter channels have not said anything about the outage yet – in fact the WhatsApp Status account hasn’t tweeted since February 2014 while the main WhatsApp Inc. Twitter account hasn’t been updated since August 2016.

Everyone is checking Twitter to see if whatsapp is down ???#WhatsappDown ??‍? pic.twitter.com/VOmkuEG8Uk — Smik The Deejay® (@dj_smik) November 3, 2017

Me coming onto twitter to see if WhatsApp is down… and sure it is ? pic.twitter.com/wLiSSpgLuf — Rachel Jones (@RachellJonesox) November 3, 2017