WhatsApp is down in a major worldwide outage

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Users of the app are currently not able to send or receive messages. Messages that are sent are not making a single tick, which indicates that they are not going through at all. The clock icon indicates that a message is still being sent.

A Downdetector graph shows that the outage started affecting users on Tuesday morning around 9am:

According to CNBC, a Meta spokesperson said the following on the outage:

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”