Snap Inc-owned (NYSE:SNAP) social media app Snapchat is seeing a widespread outage, data from Downdetector indicates.
What Happened: As many 125,000 reported suffering Snapchat outages Thursday evening, as per industry tracker Downdetector. The number of outage reports had come down to 17,400 as of press time at 10:50 p.m. ET.
About 67% of those who reported issues said they were unable to send snaps. Snapchat acknowledge the issue in a post on Twitter, saying it was aware of an issue that was “preventing some Snapchatters from logging in.”
The social media company added that it was working on a fix.
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Why It Matters: Snapchat suffered backlash from users last month when the latest version of its app on Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform kept crashing when the users attempted to log in. Snapchat reported the issue being fixed shortly after.
Should be fixed now
— Jacob (@jacobandreou) June 28, 2021
Price Action: Snap stock closed 1.6% lower at $74.92 on Thursday and traded another 1.5% lower in the after-hours session.
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