{"id":264413,"date":"2018-06-14T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=264413"},"modified":"2018-06-14T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:42:24","slug":"whatsapp-is-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/264413-whatsapp-is-down-2.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> WhatsApp appears to be up and running again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is down, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Down Detector showed a <a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>massive spike<\/strong><\/a> in user reports of downtime in South Africa from 08:00 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A report from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/whatsapp-down-june-14-2018-521552.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia News<\/strong><\/a> stated that WhatsApp was also experiencing\u00a0connectivity problems in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that Down Detector&#8217;s international site showed WhatsApp downtime in Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Tests by MyBroadband resulted in us being unable to send WhatsApp text messages.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WhatsApp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264423\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WhatsApp.jpg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WhatsApp.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WhatsApp-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WhatsApp-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/263447-red-tape-is-slowing-down-network-growth-mtn-and-vodacom.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Red tape is slowing down network growth \u2013 MTN and Vodacom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is down, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2956,2594],"class_list":["post-264413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-downtime","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}