WhatsApp logo (photo/Twitter breaking911)
Message platform WhatsApp on December 31 reportage an outage for about an hour between 2130hrs and 2230hrs just a few hours before the new year causing panic among users.
The outage covered different parts of the globe including Kenya.
Kenyans on Twitter were uncertain if it was their application or the whole country's.
"WhatsApp around the world experience a brief outage that has now been resolved, we apologize for the inconvenience," WhatsApp posted on its Facebook page.
A Uk website DownDetector.co.uk reported a spike in outage reports around 2100hrs East African time. But by 22.30pm users in Kenya were reporting that they were able to send and receive messages again.
A Kenyan user tweeted, "#Whatsapp users around the world seeing downtime. #Retweet if your Whatsapp is not working!"
Another aggrieved user tweeted, "Is @WhatsApp down again in Kenya or just me??"
The application in the recent time has been encountering downtime.
Facebook owned WhatsApp announced that WhatsApp is set to stop working on some phones starting on new years day.
Blackberry OS phones would no longer run the application.
The App which was launched in 2009 has more than one billion users around the world.