Slack chat app is down, and its causing a panic with its users

If you check whats trending in social media, you may notice slack users are reporting the app going down. Slack have also acknowledged the down time and tweeted the following

Slack is a popular communication system many offices use.

“Probably the server is overloaded, down or unreachable because of a network problem, outage or a website maintenance is in progress,” states isitdownrightnow.com

The outage is causing an avalanche of tweets which have started trending on twitter
Just some examples

Slack also tweeted that it is “working on getting things back to normal with top priority.”

Hopefully the service will be back up soon :)

*****Update****

The service has Partially come back online