YouTube Back Up After Worldwide Outage That Affected Nearly 286,000 Users
DownDetector.com, a website which monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the service.
Updated: November 12, 2020 11:04 am IST
The issue started at around 6:53 p.m. ET (23:53 GMT). (Representational)
YouTube,
owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch
that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service.
DownDetector.com,
a website which monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people
reporting issues with the service.
The
issue started at around 6:53 p.m. ET (23:53 GMT), according to
Downdetector.com, with users complaining about trouble in watching videos on
the platform.
"We're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services," YouTube said in a tweet, without explaining what had caused the outage.
"Google did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage."
The issue also affected YouTube TV and the movies and TV shows people purchase through Google TV.
“…And we`re back ? we`re so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services, thanks for being patient with us,” YouTube said.
The platform was fixed after more than an hour.
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