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Whatsapp servers down 3 days after $19B Landmark deal

Bilal Brohi | Spider Magazine Published February 23, 2014
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Whatsapp Channel

Instant messaging service WhatsApp server has been down since 22nd Feb 1:38pm EST.

People from various countries have reported technical failures such not being able to connect to the system server and so have been unable to send or receive messages or change their status.

On 19th February Facebook bought Whatsapp for US$19 billion in an unprecedented landmark deal

WhatsApp acknowledged the server problem and said it would be active soon.

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The author is a technology writer and assistant editor for Spider magazine. He tweets @bilalbrohi.

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Farman.khan
Feb 23, 2014 02:29am
Now will have to create my own app like whatsapp have better idea the whatsapp will be soon launching it in Sha Allah :) just pray
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Syed Mujtaba
Feb 23, 2014 08:23pm
@Farman.khan: Good luck bro
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waseem
Feb 23, 2014 11:11pm
@Farman.khan: Don't be a copy cat. Invent something new !
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Haroon
Feb 24, 2014 12:28am
There is a life beyond whats app ..........move on
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ejaz
Feb 24, 2014 02:17pm
i wanna subscribe spider magzine ?? now
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Salt
Feb 24, 2014 08:33pm
Just enough time for Zuckerberg to plant his FB tentacles into all of Whatsapp's networks.
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