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Snapchat was down for about 12 hours — but now it's back up
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Snapchat was down for some users on Tuesday, according to reports on social media and the official Snapchat Support Twitter account.
Starting around 3 am EST on Tuesday, Snapchat's service stopped working for some users.
By about 3 pm EST, the service was back to normal, according to a statement from the company:
"We’re happy to share that as of 12:06 pm PT, the outage that prevented some Snapchatters from posting and viewing Snaps and Stories have been resolved. We apologize for the frustration this caused, and we are working hard to prevent future outages."
Tweets flooded in reporting that the service was down.
Judging by the volume of tweets, the issue appeared to be pretty widespread.
snapchat down for you as well?
— Sam Sheffer (@samsheffer) December 8, 2015
Literally feels like a part of me is dead bc snapchat is down 😫
— A (@aam4nkin) December 8, 2015
Snapchat is down, it's the end of the world
— Dante Stanley (@ThatBoyDantee) December 8, 2015
Snapchat tweeted that the company was aware of the problem, and was working on a fix. It even responded to individual users' tweets about the apparent outage.
Hi! Some Snapchatters are currently experiencing loading issues. Our team is aware of the problem and working on a fix now!
— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) December 8, 2015
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