Global WhatsApp outage resolved

Tech giant Meta says it's resolved a WhatsApp outage that turned out to be brief. It had prevented many of the billions of users of the popular service from connecting or sending messages.

Meta issued a statement to CBS News saying, "We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today. We've fixed the issue and apologize for any inconvenience."

Problems with the hugely popular service were reported by monitoring site Downdetector and by user complaints on social media on Tuesday morning.