Snapchat is down for some users

Snapchat is down for some users, according to reports on social media and the official Snapchat Support Twitter account. 

The service appears to have been down for several hours. Business Insider checked at around 8 a.m. GMT and could not load any Snapchat stories. Sending snaps also appears not to be working. 

The outage appears to be affecting European users specficially. 

Tweets are currently flooding in reporting that the service is down. 

Judging by the volume of tweets, the issue appears to be pretty widespread in the U.K. 

Business Insider has reached out to Snapchat to clarify the issue. 

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