WhatsApp was the last of Facebook products to still be available in mainland China the company’s main social media service has been blocked in China since 2009, and its Instagram image-sharing app is also unavailable. The disabling in mainland China of the Facebook-owned app is a setback for the social media giant, whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has been pushing to re-enter the Chinese market, and has been studying the Chinese language intensively. No shortage of WeChat users have again forwarded this theory in relation to the recent service issues.SHANGHAI - China has largely blocked the WhatsApp messaging app, the latest move by Beijing to step up surveillance ahead of a big Communist Party gathering next month. It was also hypothesized last month that WhatsApp’s service issues may be related to Facebook’s decision to transfer the messaging program from IBM cloud servers to its own data center. Even after the main Google site was blocked, Gmail remained accessible until around December 2014 – but with bandwidth throttled, meaning slow connections that pushed users to migrate to other mail services. There has been some speculation that the app may be facing a Gmail-style takedown.
It appears service issues vary, with some users reporting being unable to connect to the app at all, while others have only experienced issues with photos, videos and audio.Ī multi-platform messaging service, WhatsApp is owned by Internet heavyweight Facebook and is the company’s last active service in China. WhatsApp’s webpage as of 2.45pm today, without a VPN The company’s website also went down in China during the last outage, something that appears to be an issue this time around (if you aren’t using a VPN). This latest lapse in functionality comes a month after the service experienced similar issues in China, affecting video and voice calls and, for some users, the ability to send images, videos and even text-based messages. WhatsApp is again experiencing service issues inside Chinese mainland, with users in the country reporting problems viewing, sending and receiving images and videos, as well as audio messages.ĭifficulties with the app allegedly surfaced last night. UPDATE (at 9.54pm CST): WhatsApp appears to be working normally again for some users in Chinese mainland Others are still reporting sporadic access issues.
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