Pictures going unshared as Snapchat suffers extended outage

Photo-sharing app goes offline for five hours leaving users unable to login, send messages or accessing Discover section

Popular photo-sharing and messaging app Snapchat has been suffering a major outage for the last five hours that has seen users unable to access the service.

Snapchat went offline on Tuesday, preventing users from logging in, sharing photos and messages or accessing the Discover section.