WhatsApp just went offline across the globe, as thousands unable to send or receive messages

WHATSAPP is down and appears to be experiencing a major outage this morning. Users across the UK and the rest of the world are experiencing trouble sending and receiving messages.

WhatsApp is down across the UK and other parts of the world, according to thousands of reports from users.

Fans have been left unable to send or receive text messages, photos, documents, or videos this morning.

The Facebook-owned chat app started to experience problems with its service at around 7am in the UK with India,  South Africa and parts of Malaysia also hit but the outage.

Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social comments around a certain topic to monitor outages across the globe, has mapped the problems.

The news also comes after the company revealed WhatsApp will no longer be supported on Android 2.3 Gingerbread devices in 2020. It might not be a big deal, because Google’s distribution dashboard shows Android 2.3 (released in 2011) only accounts for 0.3 percent of all devices visiting the Play Store.

DownDetector shows thousands of WhatsApp users experiencing connection issues.

Some users have reported the app is working again after the outage although Twitter is still full of people complaining about connection issues.

One user Tweeted: "WhatsApp Down!......I repeat we have a WhatsApp down!!"