A company spokesperson said that “the brief outage was a result of a technical error on our part”. The issue has now been resolved, the company added.New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 26, 2022 16:24 ISTBy Abhik Sengupta: WhatsApp suffered a major outage in India and other countries yesterday, October 25. The app and web clients were down for millions of users for nearly two hours. Due to the outage, users were unable to send messages or use services like WhatsApp audio and video call. The Meta-owned company has now offered clarification (well, vaguely) about why its services were down worldwide.In a statement to India Today Tech, a company spokesperson said that “the brief outage was a result of a technical error on our part”. The issue has now been resolved, the company added.WhatsApp-parent Meta did not offer more details, and what caused the “technical error” remains unclear. Coincidentally, WhatsApp suffered an outage in October last year for nearly six hours. At that time, the company said that its services were down due to a DNS (Domain Name System)-related issue. Meta even posted a blog, and said, “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic…
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WhatsApp explains why its app stopped working for million of users for two hours
