New Delhi: WhatsApp saw an outage in India and across the world in the early hours of Wednesday with thousands of users reporting glitches in the popular end to end encrypted application.

WhatsAppAccording to a report, users started reporting problems since 1:32 AM. Most users reported issues of connection, sending or receiving messages as well as log-in problems.

Many of the over 1.5 billion users, both on Android and iOS, were unable to log into the app. The reason behind is yet to be announced by the company.

#whatsappdown soon began to trend on Twitter. However, after sometime, the platform resumed functioning.

WhatsApp This is not the first time that the messaging app has stopped working. WhatsApp users faced a similar issue twice in January 2019.