Apple's iMessage and FaceTime are running normally again after the company reported Tuesday that "some users" were affected by service interruptions.
The Cupertino, Calif. company's system status page indicated that users had been "unable to place FaceTime calls" and "unable to use iMessage" from 3:11 p.m. ET to 8:20 p.m. ET.
Over the five hours, Apple users vented their frustrations via Twitter.
My iMessage is down... Now I'm stuck sending normal text messages like a common peasant.— Chill Quotes (@chilllquotes) April 9, 2013
So iMessage goes down and this happens twitter.com/GingerrGoddess…— GingerCharlotte (@GingerrGoddess) April 9, 2013
Of course, they also took to the microblogging network to celebrate once iMessage and FaceTime were back up.
Me when iMessage starts working again twitter.com/AllFabThings/s…— All Things Fabulous (@AllFabThings) April 10, 2013
My imessage works now twitter.com/SebieeOxx/stat…— Sebiee Ramirez (@SebieeOxx) April 10, 2013
It's unclear what caused the downtime. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The last major iMessage and FaceTime outage occurred in November, affecting iOS devices and Macs with OS X 10.6.6 or higher for five hours.
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