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WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users and is among the most used apps for chatting in the world, with Brazil being one of its main markets.
WhatsApp, Meta’s instant messaging application, was down for a few hours this Wednesday, 3. Despite being quick, the blackout generated concern among several users.
According to the DownDetector.com platform, the first complaints began to appear around 3 pm (Brasília time). Although it is difficult to measure precisely how many times the app has been offline, it is possible to identify some emblematic moments. The most relevant of these was in 2015 when the tool spent more than 20 hours without working.
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WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users and is among the most used apps for chatting in the world, with Brazil being one of its main markets.
See 6 other moments when WhatsApp was down besides this Wednesday, 3. Most of the time, the company did not disclose the reasons.
2023
WhatsApp had some outages throughout the year, most of them short-lived. The cause of the falls was not disclosed by the company.
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2021
WhatsApp had a major global outage that lasted around six hours. The cause of the crash was a technical problem with the company’s servers.
2020
This year, there were some falls, most of which were also short-lived.
2018
The app had a major global outage that lasted around two hours. The cause of the crash was a technical problem with the company’s servers.
2017
It was also a year of some short-lived declines.
2015
WhatsApp was down for around 24 hours around the world, affecting more than 900 million users. The cause of the crash was a technical problem with the company’s servers.