(Reuters) - WhatsApp, the rapid expansion of the application of mobile messaging , suffered a failure of more than three hours on Saturday , user frustration just days after its acquisition by Facebook for $ 19 billion.
" WhatsApp Service has been restored. We apologize for the downtime ... " WhatsApp tweeted to its more than 1 million Twitter followers Saturday around 5:48 p.m. ET ( 2248 GMT).
Earlier, the department had said he was " having problems with server " , without providing further details. Facebook has referred questions about the failure of representatives WhatsApp, which did not respond immediately.
Five years WhatsApp currently has about 450 million users worldwide and has been adding a million users every day.
On Saturday , some of these users took other forms of social media , including blogs and Twitter to report the fault and express their frustration.
WhatsApp is the leader among a wave of messaging applications based smartphones that are now sweeping North America, Asia and Europe, and is known to appeal to teenagers and others who avoid social networks traditional .
During the outage was the buzz on Twitter conspiracy - that Facebook had really bought WhatsApp to stop and channel users of Facebook Chat - philosophy.
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