<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56027da6dd0895d3138b4611-673-505/screen%20shot%202015-09-16%20at%209.52.58%20pm.png" alt="gop snapchat" data-mce-source="Madison Malone Kircher"><p class="source"><span>Madison Malone Kircher</span></p><p class="caption">Snapchat's lenses can apply a series of "live filters" to a face.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Snapchat is down for some users, according to reports on social media and the official Snapchat Support Twitter account.&#xa0;<p>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.&#xa0;</p><p>The outage appears to be affecting European users specficially.&#xa0;</p><p>Tweets are currently flooding in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=Snapchat%20down&amp;src=typd">reporting that the service is down</a>.&#xa0;</p><p>Judging by the volume of tweets, the issue appears to be pretty widespread in the U.K.&#xa0;</p><p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Hi! Some Snapchatters are currently experiencing loading issues. Our team is aware of the problem and working on a fix now!</p>- Snapchat Support  (@snapchatsupport) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/674156829551783940">December 8, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p><em>Business Insider has reached out to Snapchat to clarify the issue.&#xa0;</em></p><p><em>This story is developing. Refresh for updates...</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-tricks-settings-2015-12">5 hard-to-find iPhone tricks only power users know about</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dzb3ZxczpW1JgYelTy6QXfo_lrpK_Xyi" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'dzb3ZxczpW1JgYelTy6QXfo_lrpK_Xyi',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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Snapchat is down for some users

Madison Malone KircherSnapchat's lenses can apply a series of "live filters" to a face.Snapchat is down for some users, according to reports on social media and the official Snapchat Support Twitter account.&#xa0;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.&#xa0;The outage appears to be affecting European users specficially.&#xa0;Tweets are currently flooding in reporting that the service is down.&#xa0;Judging by the volume of tweets, the issue appears to be pretty widespread in the U.K.&#xa0;Hi! Some Snapchatters are currently experiencing loading issues. Our team is aware of the problem and working on a fix now!- Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) December 8, 2015Business Insider has reached out to Snapchat to clarify the issue.&#xa0;This story is developing. Refresh for updates... NOW WATCH: 5 hard-to-find iPhone tricks only power users know about if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'dzb3ZxczpW1JgYelTy6QXfo_lrpK_Xyi',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); Please enable Javascript to watch this video (function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }());

Madison Malone KircherSnapchat's lenses can apply a series of "live filters" to a face. Snapchat is down for some users, according to reports on social media and the official Snapchat Support Twitter account.

Snapchat is down for some users

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