Humans have taken thousands of years to evolve from being a filthy-looking cave-man to a fine-looking man with tie and suit. Today’s generation relies highly on technology to do stuff to shop, we need eBay. To learn something, we need an online tutorial. To learn more about topics, we need webinars. To showcase our talent, we need a blog.

To play chess, we need an online partner, for communication, we need Facebook and Twitter and Whatsapp and Viber and the list goes on, doesn’t it? Imagine your life without all these, it’s impossible and horrible, isn’t it?

But it did happen for a while in India. WhatsApp was down for a couple of hours in the country and in a few parts of the world. The Facebook-owned messaging service appears to be facing outage. It is, however, not clear which all regions are affected by the downtime.

WhatsApp users were not able to both send as well as receive messages. Reports suggest the WhatsApp’s worldwide server crashed for a few hours. Shortly, the hashtag #whatsappdown began to trend and people just couldn’t wait for WhatsApp to work again.

Twitter Reactions:

#WhatsAppDown. This is fine. pic.twitter.com/mw1JgBY6V9

— Irene (@IreneChooimt) November 3, 2017

How do you confirm that #WhatsApp is down? Just hop onto twitter and search for it ’cause its trending #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/WHf7upiOSn

— SmileyBoy™ (@smileyboyoff) November 3, 2017

This moment when WhatsApp doesn’t work so you try to remember how to send an actual text #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/KXyr77MTYO

— 🙂 (@musicleadsus) November 3, 2017

When you come on Twitter to see if everyone else’s WhatsApp is down 😂 #whatsappdown

— Ghadeer Alyasiri (@AlyasiriG) November 3, 2017

#WhatsAppDown and everyone will be like pic.twitter.com/wpc8nVz8rw

— Bhaumik Naik (@bcnaik) November 3, 2017

WhatsApp is down in india… For several hours…It is not good without any intimation… They have to tell the reason #WhatsAppDown

— hemakumar_reddy (@hemakumar0101) November 3, 2017

A similar WhatsApp outage was reported in the month of May this year as well when the platform was down for a few hours in all parts of the world.

However, WhatsApp is now back for users after a brief outage in the afternoon of November 3. WhatsApp is yet to release an official statement on the outage.