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WhatsApp down in SA, many other countries

NEWSWATCH: WhatsApp has evidently ceased working in South Africa, as well as a couple of other countries around the globe. Twitter is flooded with #WhatsAppDown tweets - some extremely serious, others quite hysterical. [See update at the bottom of the article]
WhatsApp down in SA, many other countries
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The instant messaging app is currently not allowing users to send or receive messages, with the dreaded spinning 'waiting wheel' alongside the "connecting" notification.

According to a report on Fin24, over 500 reports from South Africa were submitted to outage reporting website, Downdetector, from 10:18am.

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[UPDATE]: WhatsApp is operating again after the global outage earlier today. According to reports, the problem was due to a server that went down.

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