WhatsApp users in South Africa and also in other parts of the world were left ‘message-less’ on Friday morning.
Over 500 reports from South Africa were submitted to outage reporting website, Downdetector, from 10.18am.
The service resumed at 11.05am.
No official statement regarding the downtime has been released yet.
The social networking app, owned by Facebook, which allows users to share images and videos, as well as make and receive video and voice calls, was reported to have experienced numerous issues from users across social networks.
Scores of users from India, South Africa and the UK took to Twitter to voice their dismay.
RT If you didn't even realize WhatsApp wasn't working... #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/HsbI1QE77I
The way My WhatsApp is so Dry,I didn't notice that is down. I only found out on Twitter that Whatsapp was down.
#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/SRmv0JMRiR
Waiting for #WhatsApp to come back online. pic.twitter.com/oNTODgIscl
