Chat app Telegram's meltdown today was literal – its data center cooling failed

Messaging app Telegram went wobbly on Thursday as one of its North American data centers closed down due to melting servers.

The messaging service said on Twitter that the facility had been experiencing "massive overheating" problems after the cooling center in the building failed. This, in turn, resulted in communication breaking down for the North America and Latin America regions, though no stored data was ever at risk, apparently.

Issues in North and Latin America: cooling system died in one data center, massive overheating. Data safe, working with DC staff to fix.

— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) October 13, 2016

The issue was resolved a few hours later and by mid-afternoon US Eastern time, the service had largely been restored.

And everything is back to normal for 99% of our users. If you're in the 1%, hang on just a little longer – it will be alright very soon!

— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) October 13, 2016

Earlier this year, the allegedly secure Telegram boasted that its service handles around 15 billion messages monthly from more than 100 million active users. ®