New Delhi: American video-sharing website Youtube was down on Wednesday morning as the website was suffering a breakdown. Many users across the globe were reporting issues with the Google-owned video streaming site. Several services like Youtube TV, Youtube Red and Youtube Music was down.
Addressing this issue, YouTube tweeted, “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”.
Serious downtime for YouTube is pretty rare, and this time, the servers were not working for over almost an hour.
Previously, YouTube suffered a global outage during the World Cup game between England and Croatia this summer, as per a report by The Verve.
Prior to that, the Pakistani government accidentally caused an hours-long global YouTube blackout a decade ago by attempting to censor a trailer for an anti-Islamic film.
Twitter users went berserk after YouTube went down. Here’s what they had to say: