This person cannot be reached on Imessage at this time! please Help!

I am wanting to text a friend on IMessage and everytime i try sending a message it says: This person cannot be reached on Imessage at this time, please try again later. What does this mean i have been trying for the past 8 hours and it kept saying the same thing! please help! Thanks..

Lots of users don't realize iMessage will send a text to any phone but using an email address the recipient needs to be registered on iMessage. I suppose when you think about it a text is on the cell network but desktops & laptops are not on the cell network so are sent on the net.
Now if Contacts could be made so that it presented you with the cell number when you were sending a text but the email address only for emails.........

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