{"id":208809,"date":"2017-11-03T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=208809"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:10:59","slug":"whatsapp-down-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/208809\/whatsapp-down-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatsapp down in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users across the world, including in South Africa, have reported that WhatsApp is down.<\/p>\n<p>Tests by MyBroadband showed that WhatsApp was not working for Android, iOS, and web app users.<\/p>\n<p>Down Detector also showed a huge spike in reported outages from 10:00 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-768x271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208811\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-768x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-768x271.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-768x271-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/198740\/cell-c-launches-new-facebook-and-whatsapp-data-bundles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cell C launches new Facebook and WhatsApp data bundles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users across the world, including in South Africa, have reported that WhatsApp is down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":46020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2118],"class_list":["post-208809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208821,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208809\/revisions\/208821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}