YouTube Was Down for Two Hours on Wednesday
The popular video platform YouTube suffered a large outage on Wednesday night. The issue started a few minutes before 7 p.m. EST and was resolved roughly two hours later, according to third-party downtime trackers such as Downdetector and Outage.Report.
YouTube users started reporting difficulties with viewing videos at 6:53 p.m. EST. Most of the error reports came from North America, but the issue also affected users in far-flung locales such as Australia, France, South Africa, Brazil, and India. It's safe to call this a global outage, also affecting all of YouTube's derivative services such as YouTube Music and YouTube TV.
A tweet from the official YouTube account indicated that people were aware of the issue and working on a fix, promising to update the thread as new information arose. YouTube's parent company, technology giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), was quick to address the problems, and the service was fully functional again within two hours.
Source Fool.com
