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YouTube back up after worldwide outage, nearly 286000 users affected
Video-streaming service YouTube experienced worldwide outage late on Wednesday, it was back up nearly an hour later.
Highlights
- YouTube experienced worldwide outage late on Wednesday.
- Nearly 286,000 users complained of outage.
- The video streaming service was back up after about an hour.
The Alphabet Inc`s Google owned YouTube on late Wednesday said 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 PM 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.
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.