- Sunday, March 09, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
WhatsApp, the popular Meta-owned instant messaging platform, was down for several users in India on Tuesday (25) with people unable to either send or receive messages on their devices.
Meta said it was trying to restore the WhatsApp services as soon as possible.
“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,” a Meta company spokesperson, according to Asian News International.
Several users in India reported that they were not able to access WhatsApp messenger on Android or iOS and even WhatsApp web to send messages to their contacts or groups. Similar complaints also came from other countries, trackers reported.
According to DownDetector, a website which reports on outages and other issues, the complaints were being reported since 12.20 pm local time India, ANI reported.
Affected regions based on Downdetector’s heat-map included major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, and Lucknow, among others.
Meanwhile, social media platforms such as Twitter exploded over the news with people making funny posts. Some of them are listed below:
People Coming to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is down#WhatsappDown pic.twitter.com/eGi25KiQhU
— Bella Ciao (Chai) (@punjabiii_munda) October 25, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg trying to figure out why WhatsApp is down#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/Xm9SoGAyXS
— Sam Chege SC (@_sam_chege) October 25, 2022
Everyone who noticed #whatsapp is down have come to twitter to confirm it.#WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/0GJDDU7mRx
— Heer Sapariya (@HeerSapariya) October 25, 2022
Telegram CEO after hearing that WhatsApp is down right now#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/EFYdZoAXPv
— Lord_Dessy? (@DesmondEhix) October 25, 2022
Me trying to restarting my phone to make WhatsApp work #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/uDusa3W1T4
— Marlin (@Marloneeex) October 25, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg fixing the Whatsapp crash#WhatsApp #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/PndBaFERKa
— Gautam Morya (@GautamMorya7) October 25, 2022
