{"id":49964,"date":"2022-10-25T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=49964"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:28:51","slug":"meta-confirms-whatsapp-outage-working-to-restore-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/10\/25\/meta-confirms-whatsapp-outage-working-to-restore-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta confirms WhatsApp outage, working to restore service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>US tech giant Meta confirmed a global outage was affecting its messaging service WhatsApp on Tuesday and said it was working to restore the app &#8220;as quickly as possible&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we&#8217;re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,&#8221; a Meta spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problems with the hugely popular service were reported by monitoring site Downdetector and user complaints on social media on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downdetector said thousands of WhatsApp users had been reporting problems since 0717 GMT, with a sharp spike appearing on its dedicated chart covering the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media users said they were unable to connect to the app or send messages.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WhatsApp&#8217;s parent company Meta suffered an unprecedented major outage last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: France 24<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giant Meta confirmed a global outage was affecting its messaging service WhatsApp on Tuesday and said it was working to restore the app &#8220;as quickly as possible&#8221;. &#8220;We&#8217;re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we&#8217;re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,&#8221; a Meta spokesman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49966,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49964\/revisions\/49966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}