After boasting of handling a record 64 billion messages in a single day, WhatsApp on Wednesday suffered from a service outage.
The popular cross-platform instant messaging service's Wednesday outage was its second major outage since it announced its acquisition by Facebook for $19 billion. The outage happened shortly after it tweeted about how it made a new daily record of handling about 20 billion outgoing messages and nearly 44 billion incoming messages in a single day - adding up to 64 billion.
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Well I can imagine that handling this much messages in a single day is the cause for it.