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

Published October 13, 2021 5:27pm ET



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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