Why do bad things happen to good people (Picture: Reuters)

WhatsApp is down – and it’s New Year’s Eve.

How are we going to text everyone saying ‘Happy New Year!’ ??? Will the new year even happen now?

Will we have to resort to *gulp* … SMS?

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WhatsApp is used by more than a billion people around the world, and is the second most popular messaging app available (after Facebook Messenger).


More than 70 million of those users are in India – which, at the time of writing, had just seen in 2018.

According to Down Detector’s outage map the app is mainly down for people in northern Europe, as well as for some users in Spain, India, Malaysia, New York and Brazil.

HELP (Picture: Down Detector)

As usual, people have been dusting off their Twitter accounts to check that WhatsApp is in fact down, and it’s not just their phones.

Retweet if you're checking Twitter to find out if WhatsApp is down #whatsappdown — Saifanassour Arabi (@Saifhazar) December 31, 2017

Open Whatsapp.

Send message.

Nothing.

Airplane mode on. Airplane mode off.

Nothing.

Open Twitter.

See #WhatsappDown .

Find relief that it's not just me.#HappyNewYear2018 — Aashish Kushwaha (@ParwanaDeewana) December 31, 2017

Whatsapp down we have a whatsapp down #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/E9agccuMJ2 — Alok Sandal (@aloksandal) December 31, 2017

Although, this person makes a very good point…

If whatsapp is down for the night I can't send any drunk texts I'll regret in the morning #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/XCnTXK9o68 — Ally (@AllyFarrelly) December 31, 2017

Metro.co.uk has contacted WhatsApp for comment