In yet another outage this year, Google-owned video service YouTube suffered a serious downtime in the early hours of Wednesday. Users across the world started to notice around 6.50 am (India time) that YouTube’s desktop and mobile applications were down.
Users reported that YouTube TV and YouTube Music were also down. All the services remained inaccessible for more than an hour.
At 7.11 am, YouTube posted a tweet acknowledged the outage. “We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated,” Team YouTube posted.
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Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
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The service was up by 8.30 am.
We’re back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
YouTube did not say what caused the global blackout.
In its 13 -year history, YouTube has not seen downtime too many times. However, in 2018 alone, the Google-owned video service has suffered outage four times already. The last time it saw a service disruption was on July 11 this year during the FIFA World Cup match between Croatia and England.
In May, YouTube TV had faced an outage during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
Prior to that, YouTube visitors were greeted with a 500 internal server error message on the channel pages in April.
The most infamous YouTube outage took place a decade ago when a Pakistan ISP accidentally took down the video site around the world for several hours. The service disruption was cause after the Pakistan government ordered ISPs to censor the trailer for an alleged anti-Islamic film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
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