New Delhi: WhatsApp was slowly coming back online by 0900 GMT (2:30 pm) on Tuesday, October 25, with some users in India, Asia and the United Kingdom saying they were able to send and receive some messages and videos.

NDTV reported that the restoration began by 2:15 pm, though users reported several glitches and said the app was not working on desktop.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, people started reporting problems around 3 am EDT (12:30 pm IST), making this the longest outage WhatsApp has had. Nearly 29,000 reports were flagged by users.

"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we're working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible," a spokesperson for WhatsApp parent company Meta Platforms said on Tuesday.

Downdetector said more than 11,000 users across India had reported an outage, while the numbers for United Kingdom were at 68,000 and 19,000 for Singapore as of about 0750 GMT.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may have affected a larger number of users.

(With inputs from Reuters)

This story, which was published on October 25 at 1:26 pm, is being republished on the same date at 2:44 pm with an update on WhatsApp being restored partially.

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