{"id":86650,"date":"2021-10-04T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86650"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:44:12","slug":"were-working-to-get-back-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/were-working-to-get-back-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re working to get back \u2014 WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1712718665993790414\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the global outage of some social media platforms, WhatsApp has said it is currently working to get back.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPointblanknews.com reports Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure, all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time this year social networking apps have suffered an outage.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In April and June this year, the social networking sites all went down due to a \u201cnetwork configuration issue\u201d, a development that affected their users across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Users were not able to send messages, receive messages on Whatsapp, as all the messages and chats were left undelivered.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting to the recent outage, WhatsApp on its verified Twitter handle wrote;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. 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