WhatsApp black out after Facebook yet takeover WhatsApp, the instant messaging service went on a two hours blackout days after social media giant Facebook acquired it in a billion dollar deal. Latest Facebook entity Whatsapp had to apologise to its 450 million monthly users after it went down for over two hours on Saturday night. WhatsApp used its @wa-status account to tweet at 8:16pm: ‘Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. We hope to be back up and recovered shortly.’ At 10.48pm it announced the problems had been fixed, tweeting: ‘WhatsApp service has been restored. We are so sorry for the downtime…’ Some users complained about the problems, while others joked that the WhatsApp team had gone on holiday following their multi-billion dollar deal with Facebook. Olympic medal-winning diver Tom Daley asked his 2.62 million Twitter followers: ‘Anyone else’s WhatsApp stopped working?’ It is worthy to note thatFacebook announced the purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday, in a $19bn deal. A deal that represents the social media company’s biggest acquisition
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:52:17 +0000
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