Saturday 22 February 2014

WhatsApp? Service down, three days after Facebook deal

Posted by Vipan Funzone on 23:55 in |

WhatsApp? Service down, three days after Facebook deal



On Saturday Whats App service down for several hours, three days after Facebook declared it was lavishing up to $19 billion on it.

"Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. We hope to be back up and recovered shortly," WhatsApp said in a message on Twitter that was re tweeted more than 25,000 times in just a few hours and provoked ridicule because it comes so soon after Facebook's hefty acquisition.

Problem is:

Some user were not able to connect.
Some user found that their messages is not going.

WhatsApp did not say how long the outage lasted, but about 2.5 hours later it tweeted again to say: "Whats service has been restored. We are sorry for the downtime..."

This problem is arises due to " a surge of signups and usage that has overloadd the servers" said specialist website techcrunch.com

Facebook is betting huge on mobile with the eye-popping cash-and-stock deal for WhatsApp, which was only started five years ago but has quickly grown as a free alternative to text messages.

It is Facebook's biggest acquisition and comes less than two years after the California-based Internet star raised $16 billion in the richest tech sector public stock offering.

Neither WhatsApp nor Facebook were immediately available for comment. 

However, the outage was the source of much amusement -- as well as anger -- on Twitter. 

"I expect you are all away from your desks on the ales drinking some of that Facebook cash!" one user, "leonclarance," replied to WhatsApp's tweet about the blackout.

Another simply tweeted: "Turn down Facebook's offer guys!" 



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