Thousands of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger users are facing difficulties this afternoon with reports the popular messaging app is down as users are unable to send messages

Thousands of Canadians and Americans reported WhatsApp issues Friday morning, with some people also having Facebook and Messenger issues.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Workplace communications platform Slack experienced an outage Wednesday morning as thousands of users reported they were unable to use the service.

Workplace messaging platform Slack was experiencing outages Wednesday, with a peak of more than 3,000 people reporting problems with the service on DownDetector around 11 a.m. EST—though the number of reported issues dropped significantly by 3 p.m. EST.

Messaging service WhatsApp has gone down, according to thousands of reports flagged to outage monitor Downdetector. More than 50,000 reports from users, saying they could not use the app to send messages,

According to Down Detector, the problems started at around 3:10pm, and are affecting WhatsApp users around the world.

Instant messaging service WhatsApp appears to have gone down Friday, according to Downdetector.com. User reports of problems with the chat app appeared to spike Friday morning with a majority of users — 54% — reporting problems with sending messages.

Messaging app WhatsApp is currently down with thousands of users reporting issues with the software. The majority of those affected appear to be in London. Website Downdetector, which monitors where there are issues with websites and apps,

Meta-owned social media giant WhatsApp has gone down for thousands of users, according to outage detection website Downdetector. Data on the Downdetector website shows WhatsApp being inaccessible for over 10,

Users of the Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp have shared they are facing problems with the service. It comes as many took to the outage report site Downdectector with more than 56,000 reports of WhatsApp not working.