WhatsApp has gone down around the word - with no clear information as to when the messaging service will be back up and running.

The $19 Billion Facebook acquisition put out a tweet to notify users that they are dealing with server issues.

No comment was immediately available from Facebook regarding the outage.

TechCrunch speculates that it is likely that the acquisition by Facebook led to a surge of signups and usage that has overloaded its servers. Or perhaps the WhatsApp co-founders are enjoying a nice fancy vacation with the monetary windfall! That is what I would be doing!

**Service has been restored**