Meta messaging platform WhatsApp is back online after it crashed for two hours, affecting communications for users across the world.

The service started experiencing issues at around 10 AM Central Africa Time, with users greeted with a “connecting” message.

According to The Verge, WhatsApp web also showed a “make sure your computer has an active internet connection” error. The issues affected users globally, and were resolved around the same.

This was the first major WhatsApp outage since the service went down as part of a massive outage that also took down Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and Facebook last year.

That outage in 2021 took nearly six hours before it was resolved and WhatsApp was back online. Meta, known as Facebook at the time, said that major outage was due to a configuration change to its routers.

WhatsApp outages are still relatively rare, but they have major implications for communications worldwide as the service is used by more than two billion people each month.