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Popular messaging service WhatsApp has been intermittently unavailable for several hours, delaying New Year's Eve messages.

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They're not ignoring you, it's just WhatsApp.

The popular messaging service owned by Facebook was intermittently unavailable for several hours on Thursday, delaying New Year's Eve messages for some users.

Facebook says WhatsApp has about 900 million global users.

WhatsApp says it is working to fully restore service. The company did not answer questions about the cause of the outage or when it started.

Facebook also had a glitch on its flagship service on Thursday that invited some users to celebrate "46 years of friendship on Facebook" with one or more of their online friends.


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