YouTube is running again after going through an international outage. The inadvertent downtime further appeared to have affected other related services containing YouTube TV and Google TV. The American video-sharing company has acknowledged the problem in a tweet posted around 5.30 am Indian Standard Time on 12th November, saying that the team was working on the solution. Users had begun to complain about the problem a few minutes earlier. The outage seemed to have continued till 7.40 am IST, around the time when the company tweeted to inform users that it had been solved.
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One of the websites has shown nearly 286,000 complaints from users showcases the issue. This was seen around 6 am IST when the website showcased a graph which had peaked with complaints about YouTube. As per that website, the problem began around 6:53 pm ET, with users saying that they were having an issue watching videos on YouTube.
The company informed users that its services were back online some 2hrs later through via a tweet saying that the services were solved across all devices and YouTube services. The update was, although, with no explanation on what was the reason for the outage.
The video-sharing website was able to load just fine but videos didn’t stream as they should have and continued to display the loading wheel for up to 1min before throwing a playback error. The error messages could be cleared with a refresh after the app apprised users on Twitter that its services had been solved.
