By Ismail Auwal
WhatsApp has gone down for the second time this year, affecting users all over the world.
During the outage, many users went on social media to complain that they could still access their conversations, but the app failed to deliver new messages, or send any that they attempted to send.
According to the service status website Downdetector, users began reporting issues with WhatsApp at just before 8am, with more than 12,000 reports of issues reported to the website by 8.30am.
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms around the world and is estimated to have more than two billion active users globally.
The platform’s parent company, Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, has not yet commented on the issue.
