WhatsApp has crashed: the service has problems and some users can’t send messages

WhatsApp showed problems this Thursday afternoon and thousands of users they cannot send and receive messages. The service, which there are more than 2 billion users worldwide, it dropped according to reports from the Down Detector site.

The impact was felt in Argentina around 6 p.m. According to the site monitor, 72% of people experience problems to send messages, while 27% had difficulty connecting to the server.

This results in messages being left with a checkmark, i.e., the server is already waiting WhatsApp accepts the message in order to send it to the sender.

Along with reports flooding Down Detector, users also flocked to social media platforms to express their communication difficulties.

The company used social networks to report the incident: “You may be experiencing some problems using WhatsApp right now. We know and we work to get things right again. We’ll let you know and in the meantime, thank you for your patience. “

The last collapse of WhatsApp, and of other services -Facebook or Instagram-, began on October last year and had a tremendous magnitude.

Meanwhile, Meta increases by 15%

WhatsApp’s main company, that is, Meta -ex Facebook-, is going through a good moment with the great Silicon Valley technology companies.

Meta shares rose this Thursday morningup to 15% in reaction to the announcement of its quarterly results yesterday afternoon in which the company led by Mark Zuckerberg announced a 21% year-on-year revenue decline due to rising costs, particularly in research and development.

However, its shares are at approximately 40% lower than the price they marked at the beginning of the year, as a result of fears about rising inflation, the rise in U.S. central bank interest rates. States and the war in Ukraine.

The technology giant had net income in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 7,465 million dollars, compared to 9,497 million in the same period last year.

It also noticed that the number of active users increased from 1.93 billion to 1.96 billion in the first quarter.

As for billing, Meta — which in addition to Facebook owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus- entered $ 27,908 million, 7% more than in the first quarter of 2021, but its costs they got more, specifically 3%.

The increase in costs is largely due to investment in research and development, something for which it is intended. 2.5 billion dollars more than in the first quarter of 2021and followed by marketing, sales and administrative costs.

This 7% turnover growth is the lowest figure Meta has recorded since the company went to the stock market, under the name Facebook, in 2012.