Hang tight, folks. WhatsApp, Facebook’s $16 billion baby, appears to be down for many this morning. While there’s never a good time for an extremely popular service to go down, it’s especially ironic given last night’s boasting of a record number of messages sent and received — to the tune of 20 billion sent and 64 billion received.
new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours.
— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) April 2, 2014