Whatsapp stops for half hour, twitterati react

The importance communication and staying connected in our daily lives was once again highlighted when messaging service Whatsapp was hit by a major outage, stopping millions of people from using it around the world.

People were being unable to send or receive messages using the Facebook-owned app on Friday afternoon, the reason for which is being said was a server problem. The service has since then been restored

The app didn't initially look broken, with chats and contacts able to load. But once a user was into a chat, the app just showed a "connecting" message that never resolves itself, and so new messages couldn't be sent or received.

While, it did become a cause of concern for many with users posting their anger, regret on social media, there were many twitter users who found humour in the situation and soon turned the outage into a trending topic with the hashtag #WhatsAppdown.

Chetan Bhagat tweeted,

While, one Pritish Bhattacharya wrote,

While another Gayatri Gambhir wrote that she is feeling better with the situation,

Another Twitter user pointed out that people are reacting as if it is a major world crisis,

Rabia Anum perfectly voiced it,

While @TroluKejri brought politics into the whole mix,

Another user feared deaths due to Whatsapp failure,

Sir Ravindra Jadeja's parody account said what everyone was thinking,

And what trended while whatsapp was down? A number of people tweeted,

Whatsapp is since then up and running,