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Widespread Snapchat outage that frustrated thousands of Australian users resolved

Thousands of Australians exeperienced issues with Snapchat. (ABC News)

Snapchat says it has fixed an error that caused widespread outages and prevented users from logging in.

The popular app was down for much of today, with thousands of Australian users reporting issues. 

The company initially said it was investigating the issue and told users to "hang tight"

"We're aware of an issue preventing some Snapchatters from logging in. Hang tight, we are looking into it and working on a fix!" the company said on Twitter.

Five hours later, the company said the problem had been resolved, telling users still experiencing issues to update their app.

According to Downdetector.com, which monitors global technology outages, tens of thousands of Australians were among those lodging outage reports around the globe.

Snapchat, which relies on self-deleting images and messages, is home to hundreds of millions of daily users.

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