Oh, snap: Snapchat becomes third social media platform experiencing outages in two weeks

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Social media hasn’t quite snapped back to normal since last week’s outages, with Snapchat users reporting problems this morning.

Snapchat confirmed on Twitter shortly before 8 a.m. that the company was aware of an issue and was working to fix it. As users flocked to Twitter to confirm if their problems with the app were more widespread, #snapchatdown started trending with over 37,000 tweets.

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Some users reported being locked out of or unable to sign into accounts, while others were unable to load content or lamented the streaks they might lose.

At 10:30 a.m., Snapchat tweeted that it had resolved the issue. People reported in the comments that they were still experiencing problems, but it is unclear whether these are related to the main issue.

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On Oct. 4, Facebook and its subsidiary platforms Instagram and WhatsApp were down for seven hours for some users. Instagram users reported more problems on Friday. The outages reportedly cost CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth billions of dollars.

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