WhatsApp down: Reports of message service outages as users ring in the New Year

Thousands of people reported that Whatsapp went down for almost two hours on Sunday, as people across the world exchanged messages welcoming the New Year.There was a large spike in the number of reports that the messaging service was suffering outages shortly after 6pm.At its peak, downdetector.co.uk received 2,012 reports that Whatsapp was not working, but this had dropped to 355 by 7pm.