WhatsApp says outage result of 'technical error', now resolved

The outage which WhatsApp users faced for a brief period on October 25 was due to a "technical error", the company said in a statement.

"The brief outage was a result of a technical error on our part and has now been resolved," a spokesperson of the Meta-owned messaging application said.

WhatsApp began to act up in the afternoon with messages not being delivered to recipients, especially in groups. Subsequently, Twitter got flooded with memes from WhatsApp users across the world who flocked to the micro-blogging site to check if others were facing the same problem.

Here's how WhatsApp users had reacted about the outage on Twitter:

Several users also reported that they thought there was a problem with their internet connection before checking on Twitter that WhatsApp's services were down.

WhatsApp had recently announced that it's testing avatar support in beta. According to a report from WABetaInfo, Meta is testing the feature with a limited set of WhatsApp users on Android. It will likely allow users to share and configure avatars, and maybe even personalise stickers.