KARACHI: Popular messaging app WhatsApp stopped working for many people across world, with users in Asia, United Kingdom, South Africa and Europe reporting issues sending and receiving texts and videos. However, platform resumed its services after outage was resolved.

Outage reporting site Downdetector showed over 68,000 users had reported problems with app in United Kingdom. Problems were reported by 19,000 people in Singapore and 15,000 people in South Africa, it said.

App has become a critical means of communication for households and businesses. When Whatsapp had an hours-long outage last October, it hit trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to oil, before traders switched to alternative platforms such as Telegram.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 26 2022

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