WhatsApp Back Online in China (for the moment)

Last night it was around 5 pm local time that I and my girlfriend found out that WhatsApp was not working. At the time I was not sure, checking on Twitter and various sites, thinking there might be troubles at WhatsApp's side. But no. It was a total block by government firewall, GFW.

Although there was little coverage until today, but after about 10 hours around 10 am the day after, WhatsApp was back online again. And it has been working since then.

But again, news about WhatsApp blockage finally hits news sites all over. In fact it is working OK now.

I don't know what's going on here. Only few thoeries are all I've got. Maybe later I will write about them.

WhatsApp finally down in mainland China

As far as I know, WhatsApp has been down in mainland China, for both cable and mobile data.

Nothing works so far.

WhatsApp main server works fine, tested via circumvention methods.

It looks like the GFW finally takes down WhatsApp, just before "main event" October.

Reports from other outlets would come very soon. And, lol, nothing will change for users inside China.

WhatsApp has been a great app. So long.