Just a day earlier, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered their first big outage of the year. Zuckerberg, in an announcement letter in March paid homage to Daniels, noted that “he has helped define the business model for our messaging services going forward”. However, March would be one of the service’s worst months of the year.Īlthough it began with reports that Facebook would adorn its crown jewel messaging service with its own cryptocurrency, it also announced that two important cogs in its operations would leave the company, one of which being Chris Daniels, WhatsApp’s chief product officer. It also announced more user-focused additions, including the ability to deny group invites. In February, WhatsApp turned 10 pushing its business features and also adding new authentication measures to iOS. It announced it would quash this by tightening its message forward limits.

It announced an expansion of WhatsApp Business to the web - a huge move that made it much easier for small enterprises to manage their profiles.īut it was also in the throes of the sweeping fake news movement in India that spilled over into 2019. January was a month filled with promise for the chat service.

Whatsapp outage 2019