Uh-oh, Twitter users are airing their grief about WhatsApp and its second crash this week very soon after the messenger service boasted about having a achieved a record-breaking 64 billion messages handled in a short span of 24 hours. That’s massive. Now if only WhatsApp could stop hanging up on us.
Popular sentiment is that the messenger service has become unreliable ever since Facebook bought it. When a small company that offers a great service, is absorbed by a much bigger one through an acquisition, conspiracy theories start popping up. Are we being made slaves to an app we will be compelled to pay for in the future?
So what if WhatsApp costs $0.99 per year after 12 months of free service? Maybe Facebook wants us to shell out more cash for it. Maybe Facebook wants to monetize the platform by introducing those horrible things called ads. Maybe it just wants to destroy its biggest messenger rival by getting us to dislike its random crashes.
Various tweets have been noting that this is the second disruption in WhatsApp services since Facebook bought it. Several users have also been tweeting that the best way to utilize the application is to uninstall it. But maybe there’s a direct connection to its 64 billion messages record and the outage that followed?
Perhaps the server crash was caused by more people signing up for WhatsApp after its ’64 billion messages in 24 hours’ boast? It’s also possible that it was just a co-incidence and the outage was totally unrelated to this. The company hasn’t offered us any explanation. We’re waiting.