A spokesperson for Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, said in an email at 3:15 p.m. ET that the issues had been resolved. The Snapchat problems were caused by an outage of a component in the Google ...

Snapchat users across the country found themselves unable to send snaps or load messages on Oct. 20, but the problem had nothing to do with the app itself. Instead, the social media platform became ...