WhatsApp appeared to be down leaving users furious as they attempted to use the messaging service.
There were 22,564 reports of WhatsApp outages at 7.24pm (GMT) on Wednesday (April 3) from a baseline of just four, according to DownDetector.
Seventy percent of reported issues were due to the app itself, with 24 percent over receiving messages and six percent on the website.
The issue appears to have affected WhatsApp across the world, with users in countries including Bangladesh, Egypt, Ecuador, the US and Portugal reporting problems via DownDetector.
Facebook and Instagram have also been affected, along with WhatsApp. The three are part of Meta.
According to DownDetector, there were 1,333 report of issues with Facebook as of 7.19pm, with almost 80 percent of problems centring around the app itself.
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