After one hour and 35 minutes- YouTube- the giant video streaming portal's service has been restored!
YouTube experienced a major outage earlier today. Users across the world started to notice that the video service’s sites and mobile apps were down around 2:20 p.m. and everything remained inaccessible for more than an hour later. YouTube TV was also affected by the service disruption.
As with all Google-operated services, serious downtime for YouTube is pretty rare. YouTube TV did suffer service interruption at an inopportune time during this summer’s World Cup, however, and channel pages went down for a while in April. Perhaps most infamously, Pakistan’s government accidentally caused an hours-long global YouTube blackout a decade ago by attempting to censor a trailer for an anti-Islamic film.
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"Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated."
Unfortunately, there's no follow up information on how long this outage could occur or what has caused the issues to begin with.
However, it doesn't appear to be the more common Error message seen by users in the past when YouTube has encountered bad service issues.
Videos earlier in the afternoon was not playing on the website and was showing an error message asking people to return later.
The service has been restored as of 3:55 p.m. today.
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