WhatsApp is down and people are panicking

Service stopped working for users in India and other countries.
WhatsApp is down and people are panicking
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OK guys, time to freak out.

Whatsapp is down -- again -- and people are taking to Twitter and Facebook to express frustration, anger, disappointment, despair.

The messaging app, owned by Facebook, is used by some 1.2 billion people around the world.

According to Down Detector, the outage started around 7am BST on November 3 and is still ongoing in large parts of Europe and South East Asia.

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Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable
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People from the UK, India, Italy and other parts of the world were not happy:

People turned to Twitter to seek confirmation:

Mashable has contacted WhatsApp for comment.

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