YouTube back up after worldwide outage
YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google <GOOGL.O>, said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service.
The error affected about 286,000 users, outage monitoring website Downdetector.com said.
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BENGALURU — YouTube, owned by Alphabet's Google said late on Wednesday (Nov 11) 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 6.53pm ET (7.53am Thursday, Singapore time), 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.
...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 ❤️ https://t.co/1s0qbxQqc6
Google did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage. REUTERS
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