IMessage Stopped Working-Will No Longer Activate

    I used FaceTime last night for about 4 hours.  I used iMessage yesterday too.  This morning my iPad 2 will not send iMessages.  I tried shutting down iPad and restarting.  Tried reseting my router.  I have access to websites on iPad.  Photostreem is still working, no problem.  I can access the iTunes Store.  I went to Settings to turn off IMessage to reconnect in hopes that would correct the problem.  I turned off iMessage, then turned it back on and entered my Apple ID password.  I get a message saying there was an error activating.  I'm still using iMessage on my iPhone.  I went to my computer and logged into the website with my Apple ID and that worked just fine.  The only issue I'm having is with iMessage and only on my iPad.  I have now turned off Facetime so see if that would work and it will not reconnect either.  I get the same activation error message.  I see there are a lot of posts this morning about issues activating iMessage and Facetime.  Seems to me there has to be an issue at Apple.  Any ideas?

Working for me too now, although it's left me with a minor issue on FaceTime.  (My only reguar FaceTime pal is working nights at the moment so I can't test it fully.)  Agreed that Apple should've said something.  When O2 went down in the UK a couple of weeks ago it was a major news story, but I couldn't find anything on this problem with Apple.  Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist or anything...

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