Messaging app WhatsApp was back in service late Wednesday afternoon after a global outage caused the service to be unavailable for several hours.
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WhatsApp went down all over the world for several hours on Wednesday
The Facebook messaging service went down Wednesday afternoon and users worldwide were not happy.
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The Facebook-owned messaging app is among the most popular communications tools in the world, with more than one billion users. The app stopped working around 4:50 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
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