Last week, thousands (maybe millions) of users experienced problems accessing YouTube. Since this is such a popular platform, the issue quickly went viral. The outage started with many users in the United States but quickly spread across the Philippines, Australia, and Russia.
Let’s take a closer look at what users reported:
- •The issue seems to have started around 8:00 PM Eastern Time. It reached 338,000 reports on Downdetector before it began to decline.
- •As of 9:22 PM, users still reported they could not access YouTube.
- •By 9:33 PM, some users still complained they could not access the service. Others said it was already back online for them.
- •At 10:12 PM Eastern, YouTube posted on X that the issue was fully resolved.
Even though YouTube was down for only a couple of hours, many users noticed the issue right away. While many other platforms let people watch videos and movies, or listen to music, iconic YouTube is still very popular. In fact, it only took a few minutes for the entire world to notice the outage.
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