WhatsApp was down for two hours and the internet wasn’t happy

It's been a bit of a rough day if you enjoy using the internet. Google Docs experienced a widespread phishing attack, sending the internet into panic. Now WhatsApp has been down for more than an hour, and users of the popular Facebook-owned messaging service have turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations and finish off the panic over the Google Docs attack.
Unfortunately, it looks like WhatsApp gave up providing useful status reports on when its messaging service is down a few years ago. What