WhatsApp went down… and everyone with a Twitter account reacts in exactly the same way

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... https://twitter.com/Matthew_Daly_/status/936310221122756608 https://twitter.com/IsHousecroft/status/936310717036232704 https://twitter.com/Contenaccio/status/936310466938249216 https://twitter.com/_Kailaaa_/status/936309351014453248 https://twitter.com/neilsuri24/status/936309789423996930 https://twitter.com/carl_moffat/status/936309123758608384 https://twitter.com/AMShaw91/status/936310040297959424 https://twitter.com/kirankumnoor12/status/936311480252735488 https://twitter.com/lexgo69/status/936311312384188416 According to the Independent, WhatsApp users across Europe experienced problems with the app, as did people in South America - especially in Brazil.