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Apple's iMessage, FaceTime hit with second outage this week

The company's two major communication networks go down for the second time in the same week.

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Apple's iMessage and FaceTime networks are once again experiencing outages.

The outage, which is the second this week, began just before 8 a.m. PT, and once again affects "some users," according to Apple's system status page.

Both services experienced a similar outage this past Tuesday thatlasted more than five hours.

iMessage is Apple's proprietary messaging platform that works between iOS and OS X users. FaceTime is the company's live video chat service, also for those two platforms. In January, Apple said that iMessage users were sending more than 2 billion messages a day on the service. For iPhone users, those are often in place of text messages when sending to another iOS device.

Update at 9:47 a.m. PT: And just like that, Apple says they're back up. Apple also appears to have adjusted the outage time to end at 9:07 a.m. PT.

(Via MacRumors)