{"id":97267,"date":"2014-02-22T23:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=97267"},"modified":"2014-02-23T00:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T22:55:47","slug":"whatsapp-telegram-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97267-whatsapp-telegram-down.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Telegram down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instant messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram went offline on Saturday evening (22 February 2014), the companies have confirmed through posts on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to an update from WhatsApp on its Twitter page, it is currently experiencing server issues.<\/p>\n<p>The outage follows a recent announcement from Facebook that it plans to acquire WhatsApp for $19 billion (US) in cash, shares, and restricted stock.<\/p>\n<p>A rival service, Telegram, has reported a surge in new user registrations since Facebook\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram has said that this \u201cavalanche\u201d of new users have resulted in the SMS gateways Telegram uses for registration to become overloaded, and is causing connection issues in Europe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97271\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WhatsApp-downtime-22-Feb-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97271\" alt=\"WhatsApp downtime, 22 Feb 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WhatsApp-downtime-22-Feb-2014.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WhatsApp downtime, 22 February 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_97273\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Telegram-downtime-22-Feb-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97273\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97273\" alt=\"Telegram downtime, 22 Feb 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Telegram-downtime-22-Feb-2014.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Telegram-downtime-22-Feb-2014.jpg 532w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Telegram-downtime-22-Feb-2014-289x400.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telegram downtime, 22 February 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Update (23 February 2014, 00h48):<\/strong>\u00a0WhatsApp reported that its services have been restored. The instant messaging service was contacted for comment, but a spokesperson did not immediately respond to e-mail.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97277\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WhatsApp-restored-23-Feb-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97277\" alt=\"WhatsApp restored, 23 Feb 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WhatsApp-restored-23-Feb-2014.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WhatsApp restored, 23 Feb 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More WhatsApp news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97195-the-founders-behind-whatsapps-rise.html\"><strong>The founders behind WhatsApp\u2019s rise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97141-whatsapp-a-hit-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>WhatsApp a hit in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97117-whatsapp-19-billion-price-tag-questioned.html\"><strong>WhatsApp billion price tag questioned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86905-astonishing-whatsapp-wechat-moves-in-sa.html\"><strong>Astonishing WhatsApp, WeChat moves in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile instant messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram were both experiencing downtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":97269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35,8839,23753,2594],"class_list":["post-97267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-instant-messaging","tag-telegram","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97267"}],"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=97267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97275,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97267\/revisions\/97275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}