Facebook's WhatsApp messenger down for some users in India: Social media

Users in other countries also reported a WhatsApp outage on social media. The extent of the outage was not immediately known, and Facebook was not immediately reachable for a comment.

November 03, 2017 / 14:47 IST

Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger was down for some users in India, according to user accounts on Facebook and Twitter on Friday afternoon.

Users in other countries also reported a WhatsApp outage on social media. The extent of the outage was not immediately known, and Facebook was not immediately reachable for a comment.

India is WhatsApp's biggest market with about 200 million of its billion-plus users.

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first published: Nov 3, 2017 02:42 pm

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