If you’re a heavy iMessage user you may have to revert to another form of communication for the afternoon. Apparently quite a few users are experiencing outages, according to The Next Web. A simple search of ‘iMessage’ on Twitter will bring up thousands of whining Apple fans complaining about the outage.

After reading many tweets, it sounds like the outage is only affecting a few people. For example, one tweet reads, “my iMessage is only working for some people.”

Currently we are still trying to find out the source of the problem and a statement from Apple. We will update the post when we receive any additional details.

UPDATE: The issue is mainly relating to phone numbers on the 3G network. People are having less issues when it comes to using their Apple ID over a Wi-Fi network to send iMessages. There is more to come…

Are you experiencing the outage on your device?