Snapchat is down for thousands of users

Snapchat was down for about three hours and as usual social media users freaked out. Some social media users noticed the outage when they couldn't upload photos to their accounts. It wasn't too long before the hashtag #Snapchatdown started trending. The outage doesn't seem to have affected the ability to view already-posted stories from other users and the app's Discover section.

The company acknowledged the problem on its Twitter page-

Some Snapchatters are having trouble with the app 😓 We're looking into it!

— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) November 6, 2017

After few hours, Snapchat provided the following update-

We're aware of the issue and working on a fix🔧 Stay tuned for updates! ⚠️We recommend staying logged into your account.

— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) November 6, 2017

As usual, users took to Twitter to vent out their frustrations-

Over an hour outage for @Snapchat -- anyone know what is going on? See a hashtag #snapdown

— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) November 6, 2017

Hour 3 of #snapchatdown and I’ve just spoken to a boy in my living room for the first time. Apparently I have a 13 year old brother. pic.twitter.com/cWShdZUFo6

— nicole (@C0leP) November 6, 2017

Every person ever is now bored because Snapchat is down #snapdown #lostmystreaks #wannadie 😩💔

— Matty keenan (@mattykeenan) November 6, 2017

For everyone that loses their streak because of Snapchat servers going down. RT to save a life. #SnapchatDown pic.twitter.com/NCY9BjZs9T

— Common White Girl (@girlhoodposts) November 6, 2017

According to DownDetector, the app is still not operational in many parts of the world and nobody knows when it will be functional.