WhatsApp global outage: Services restored after nearly two hours

WhatsApp services were restored following a nearly two-hour-long global outage on Tuesday that left users from the UK to India complaining about not being able to send or receive text and video messages.

Meta, which owns the popular messaging app, said it has fixed the outage — dubbed as one of its longest — and the service was back.

“The brief outage was a result of a technical error on our part and has now been resolved,” a Meta company spokesperson said. It did not offer any further details.