Text messages received overnight on Wednesday confused thousands of mobile phone users in the US.

Axar.az reports citing BBC.

The messages were sent on Valentine's Day, but bizarrely arrived eight months later, carrying Wednesday's time stamp.

The issue occurred across all major carriers in the US, and affected both Apple and Android devices.

Syniverse, which provides services for major telecommunications companies, placed the blame for the error on an "internal maintenance cycle".

Thousands of T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon customers rushed to Twitter to air their frustrations over the confusing error.