Worldwide users have said that they are unable to use the popular photo sharing app Snapchat. The outage reportedly happened close to 06:50 ET, Wednesday and more than 14,000 users have already complained. Some users in the U.S. are able to use the app, as of now. Most of the users posted on Twitter that Snapchat was down. Many of them also went to Downdetector to report the outage.

Snapchat tweeted on their page that they were aware that some Snapchatters were having issues and said that they were looking into it. The Snapchat Support Twitter account also asked users to sent a DM with details and they would look into the matter. They also suggested that users should log out and log back in and refresh their connection.

When MailOnline asked the app for comment, they didn’t receive a response, to date.

According to the Daily Mail, Jake Moore, who is a cybersecurity expert, said that the problem was not due to a cyberattack but was mainly because of the increase in volume and scale as many social media sites were huge with billions of users logged in. Moore said that the impact and risk could be mitigated if these platforms spread their infrastructure measures across different internal platforms.

The cybersecurity expert also admitted that unfortunately “hindsight” was “a virtue with these platforms” that had “become so enormous.”

Last Monday, when Facebook and other apps including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger were down for approximately six hours, Snapchat saw a 20 percent rise in users. The BBC said that the outage reportedly cost Mark Zuckerberg $6 billion.

After last week’s blackout, Instagram announced on Tuesday that it was testing a new alert feature. This feature would inform users when the app was down.

Shiba Inu, which calls itself “Dogecoin Killer” has seen a 400 percent rally in the two days after billionaire and crypto influencer Elon Musk posted a picture of his Shiba Inu dog. The meme coin had been doing badly earlier and this was a much needed boost from the Dogefather, Elon Musk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk had mentioned that he was thinking of adopting a Shiba Inu dog and the market rallied. When Musk actually posted a picture of the adopted Shiba Inu dog called Floki, there was a surge in dog themed coins in the crypto markets. However, the biggest beneficiary was the Shiba Inu meme coin. The value of this crypto token surged within a few hours.

After SpaceX founder posted a picture of his dog on Twitter, Shiba Inu rose by 30 percent. The following day saw a huge rally as its value rose tremendous by 400 percent. This is the highest ever for the meme coin.

There are 394 trillion Shiba Inu coins circulating in the market. At its new price point, the SHIB is at a market cap of $10 billion. The altcoin is now the 12th largest digital coin in terms of market cap.

The Dogecoin was the first dog themed meme coin (DOGE) and it became extremely popular after tweets by crypto influencers including Mark Cuban and Elon Musk. Its popularity led to an influx of other dog themed altcoins.

The Dogecoin remains at the top of the litter and is at the tenth position among all crypto currencies. It has a market cap of $33.26 billion and is said to have a bullish run. Will it also see a rally soon is what many are hoping for but it is a wait and watch policy as of now. The SHIB has surged ahead of the DOGE but will it cross it in market cap remains to be seen.

Cancelations by Southwest Airlines over the weekend came close to 2000 over the weekend and crossed this number on Monday. The airlines reported that the delays were due to “weather challenges” as well as “unexpected air traffic control issues” in Florida. However, other airlines faced very few disruptions in the same period and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the air traffic control staffing shortage occurred “for a few hours Friday afternoon.”

In a Friday court filing, the union called a vaccine mandate by Southwest Airlines unlawful and said that it imposed “new conditions of employment” on pilots. It requested a judge to prevent the airline from enforcing that requirement as well as other polices and actions.

Many Republicans comments about vaccine mandates as the cause of the disruptions was due to the timing of the disruptions. Some of them included Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr.

However, on Saturday, the Southwest’s pilot union said that their pilots were “not participating in any official or unofficial job actions.”

On Monday, Southwest released another statement which said that they had several cancelations due to weather and external constraints. They said that these issues resulted in aircrafts and crews not being in pre-planned positions which in turn affected their operations on Saturday.

Last week, the union had raised objections about Southwest airlines vaccine mandate policy. The pilots’ union said that it was not against vaccinations. However, it also cautioned that there could be labor shortages and flight disruptions if the mandate was enforced.

Other airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airlines have also put forth vaccine mandates but have not suffered from major disruptions or huge shortage of staff. Delta Air Lines has not mandated vaccinations but unvaccinated employees pay an additional $200 per month for health insurance. Southwest, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, was one of the last few airlines to mandate vaccines by early December.

Late Sunday, Southwest Airlines Pilot Association (SWAPA) president Casey Murray released a statement said that there were “false claims” of job actions by their pilots on “social media” and that there were no “work slowdowns or sickouts” that were “related to the recent mandatory vaccine mandate or otherwise.”