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YouTube is Down

Posted by msmash on from the outage-reports dept.

YouTube is facing outage worldwide, users and web tracker DownDetector reported Tuesday evening. Users attempting to visit the site have reported seeing a blank website frame instead of the usual homepage. The YouTube app also showed the same problems. In a tweet, YouTube said it was working on resolving the issues on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music.

Update: The issue has been resolved.

2 of 206 comments (clear)

  1. Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by BrendaEM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any site can experience downtime, but when everyone depends on any one system too much, it's bad.

    I do worry as to the cause.

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    https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
  2. Google+ shutting down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now we know why the fuck you needed a google+ account to comment on a youtube video.

    It was all rube goldberged up together. Shut google+ down, you shut youtube down.