WhatsApp has suffered a major outage today with thousands of users across the UK and other parts of the world being left unable to use the popular service.
Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social comments around a certain topic to monitor outages across the globe, showed over a thousand of WhatsApp customers reporting issues using the app.
According to the site, problems with the chat app occurred around 8am this morning, with hundreds of people reporting issues with the app.
DownDetector says that 51 per cent of customers are having issue connecting to it.
A further 29 per cent report issues receiving messages and 19 per cent are struggling to login.
The issues affecting WhatsApp earlier today appear to have been resolved although it's still thought some users are struggling to connect.
A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed the issues in statement to Express.co.uk, sayinh: “Earlier today, WhatsApp users globally had trouble accessing the app for about an hour.
“This issue has been fixed and we apologize for the inconvenience."
WhatsApp users took to rival social networking site Twitter to report issues with the service today.
One user tweeted: “I’m such a cliche. Checking twitter to see if #whatsapp is down. It is.”
Another writes: “Whatsapp is down, whatsapp is down. This is not a drill. How can I demand constant attention from my friends now?!”
And one posted: “When Whatsapp isn't working and you have to text someone and not know if they've looked at the message or not.”
The Facebook-owned chat app outage has frustrated thousands of customers across the globe, who have taken to rival social media site Twitter to vent their frustration.
One said: “ Whatsapp down in Kenya for hours now. Users from parts of Europe, USA and Asia also experiencing delays in sending messages.”
Another moaned: “Can't get connection with WhatsApp yet again even though using home wifi about time you sorted the outage problems out.”
“Not impressed AT all. When a. communication platform for work is down for over an hour around 8 am is ridiculous,” said another.
This is not the first outage that WhatsApp has suffered this year.
The hugely-popular Facebook-owned chat app went offline for thousands of users back in May.
The outage lasted hours, with WhatsApp forced to issue a statement about the disruption to the service.