The Facebook-owned WhatsApp has, according to website DownDetector, been experiencing outages since about 3:10 EDT. So far, users from a host of countries including Ireland, Russia, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Israel, Spain, Malaysia, Kenya, Turkey, Italy, Egypt and Serbia have reported outages.

The company has not yet commented on the cause of the outage.

Predictably, people have taken to Twitter in panic to express their dismay over what will undoubtedly be a temporary outage.