Nope, it wasn’t just you.
WhatsApp was, for a brief while at least, not working properly on Thursday evening.
For reasons that are at this stage unknown, the app stopped sending and receiving messages for many of its users.
Having no doubt turned their phones on and off and refreshed the app a few hundred times to make absolutely sure, WhatsApp users the world over took to Twitter to be absolutely sure that the problem wasn’t just affecting them….
https://twitter.com/dhruveshshahz16/status/936310223211446272
No pal, you’re definitely not…
Everyone else just here to check if WhatsApp is down ? pic.twitter.com/yeGAott9bb
— Fleetwood Matt (@Matthew_Daly_) November 30, 2017
Checking Twitter to see if everyone else's WhatsApp is down pic.twitter.com/bc4wbzB4cT
— Isobel (@IsHousecroft) November 30, 2017
Everybody checking Twitter just to verify if WhatsApp is down pic.twitter.com/QpELC2Rzfu
— ɐpıʇʎɐ qɥɐɹɐpʍɐſ (@BrownHibachi) November 30, 2017
Legit only came onto twitter to see if #whatsapp is down again. pic.twitter.com/MTVzL1uLGw
— K C ➰ (@_Kailaaa_) November 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/neilsuri24/status/936309789423996930
Retweet if your first thought after your #whatsapp message not sending was to rush to Twitter to check if you're not the only one. #whatsappdown
— Carl Moffat (@carl_moffat) November 30, 2017
#WhatsApp goes down and everyone rushes to Twitter to check if it’s just them! #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/fAuIjbe5nX
— Amy Shaw (@AMShaw91) November 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/kirankumnoor12/status/936311480252735488
I am glad to see I am not the only one coming to Twitter to see if whatsapp is actually down after trying everything on my phone.#Whatsapp #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/G0a7Q3nHDD
— Alex (@lexgo69) November 30, 2017
According to the Independent, WhatsApp users across Europe experienced problems with the app, as did people in South America – especially in Brazil.