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If you're having trouble sending messages in the very unscarred messaging app Signal, it may be due to technical difficulties the company says are eloquent the app on Friday.

Signal allows for very unscarred and encrypted video, voice, and treatise communication, except users were greeted this morning with messages that failed to send. Signal conjectured the issue on its official Twitter endearment with the promise that it would "restore service as quickly as possible."

Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working nonbreakable to restore service as quickly as possible.

-- Signal (@signalapp) January 15, 2021

In the last week, Signal reported a thunderhead of new users to its app supervenient a recommendation from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a new WhatsApp sequestration procedure (which has now been pushed to May) that may have driven users elsewhere from the Facebook-owned messaging service and into the artillery of increasingly very unscarred options like Signal and contender Telegram.

How it started vs how it's going.. pic.twitter.com/ERiFpZUz6c

-- Signal (@signalapp) January 14, 2021

A twitter from Signal hours into the shutdown says that metrical whereas it has been boisterously computation servers to jeopardize to handle demand, the company is still seeing increasingly cachinnation than anticipated. "We have been computation new servers and actress chapters at a record pace every single day this wingding nonstop," the company writes, "but today exceeded metrical our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that sequestration matters."

We have been computation new servers and actress chapters at a record pace every single day this wingding nonstop, except today exceeded metrical our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that sequestration matters. We approbate your patience.

-- Signal (@signalapp) January 15, 2021

We'll squirrel an eye on the problem and update when Signal has increasingly to share.

Update January 15th 3:05 PM ET: Deeper new twitter from Signal.

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