WhatsApp fell on December 31, due to the brutal increase in traffic, which exceeded all forecasts and especially due to the sending of multimedia files, which has been much higher than those of normal days.

If the beginning of the year is being busy, the end of 2017 was not particularly calm and even less for WhatsApp, since the application fell on the last day of the year. That was only the umpteenth fall of the service and that is that 2017 has been a fateful year for the application, which has stopped operating many times, even in some cases, quite unexpectedly, since there was no apparent reason and the reason was never explained. reason. The fall of New Year's Eve at least, it has been explained, something unusual.

Despite the fact that WhatsApp, in terms of service and operation, is quite opaque and they never reveal the reason for a fall, they have explained that on Sunday the service stopped working, due to the brutal traffic registered by the platform. They have highlighted that in this period they tend to reinforce the service, but they have explained that the avalanche of traffic was such that the activation of additional systems has not covered, not even by chance, the flow that they had planned for this date.

On December 31, a whopping 75.000 million messages were sent, which is 20.000 million more than on any given day and although they had anticipated an increase in traffic, they had not anticipated such an increase and, of course, the servers crashed, causing a service outage. That was the reason that the service was down for so long, in addition, they highlight that a large part of the traffic was concentrated in very specific time slots, something that caused saturation problems.

Above all, it has been highlighted that a large number of multimedia files have been sent and of course, this has been one of the causes of the fall of the service. WhatsApp has commented that at specific times, the sending of photos multiplied by three, with respect to a normal day and the sending of videos multiplied by five. Hopefully the company shares more times because the service drops and not, as in this case, when it suits them.

Source: Android Police