Snapchat users this morning (October 20) are reporting a huge outage that's left the social media platform unresponsive for millions. It's happening at the same time as a widespread AWS outage is causing problems for a number of other services.

Reports on the outage monitoring website DownDetector have rocketed upwards from around 3 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. BST and climbed to a peak of over 22,000 reports.

Users are reporting being unable to log in, load or send any messages. In extreme circumstances, some have said they've been locked out of their account. After repeated attempts, those users allegedly got the following message: “Due to repeated failed attempts or other unusual activity, your access to Snapchat is temporarily disabled. Please try again.”

The outage is likely a result of the wi

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