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WhatsApp DOWN in the UK and parts of Europe

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Whatsapp has become a part and parcel of our lives, and imagine a day without it? So, users have been complaining about the popular chat app's sudden halt. It is not working in the UK, WHATSAPP is DOWN for parts of Europe, with UK users flooding social media to complain the Facebook-owned chat app is not working.

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There have been repeated complaints, messages tweets, Instagrams, memes on social media that they are unable to send or receive messages.

It comes just four days after the Facebook-owned chat app went down in Europe.

DownDetector.uk, an Independent website, which detects "when services go down or have outages", has reported a spike in the number of people complaining about outages for WhatsApp.

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The twitter world has gone upside down with #whatsapp down complaints and frustrations.

The only time I use #Twitter to confirm #whatsapp is down 😂

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Tweets like, "Will WhatsApp refund me for being down" or "#WhatsApp is down how will I communicate" show how we have become so used to this means of communication

WhatsApp, the world's most popular chat app, suffered a number of outages on the busiest night of the year – New Years Eve.

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In February 2014, WhatsApp was bought by Facebook for $19billion (£13billion) .

Facebook Messenger is the second most successful mobile messaging app and it recently announced that for the first time ever that one billion people accessed Facebook on the same day.

That works out to a staggering one in every seven people on Earth logging in and using the US social service.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) rated WhatsApp the worst app for user data protection last year.