YouTube Down: Users across the world report massive outage

New York - Nearly 286,000 incidents of people reported issues with the service.

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By Reuters

Published: Thu 12 Nov 2020, 7:25 AM

Last updated: Thu 12 Nov 2020, 7:26 AM

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.

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The issue started at around 6:53pm 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.

Reuters

Published: Thu 12 Nov 2020, 7:25 AM

Last updated: Thu 12 Nov 2020, 7:26 AM

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