YouTube back up after suffering global outage
Popular video sharing website YouTube was back up after being down for few hours on Wednesday morning. Users of different countries had problems due to Youtube’s worldwide outage. All these users were putting screenshots of YouTube on social media. While taking cognizance of this, the company had said that it would be able to fix the problem soon. Shortly after that YouTube started working.
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
After fixing the malfunction, YouTube said on Twitter: ‘We are back. Thank you for the patience of the people. If you have regular problems then people should definitely tell us. ‘
Since Wednesday morning the message of error was coming on the homepage of YouTube itself. After this, if the user was searching anything in it, then the video screen was black and showing the error in it as well. The users were unable to see anything on YouTube. Because of YouTube’s outage on Wednesday morning, users from all over the world could not see the videos on it.
YouTube has said on Twitter on its official handle: “Thank you for informing about the problem you are having with Youtube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music. We are trying to fix this malfunction and we will give you information as soon as this malfunction goes away. We apologize for the problems you are facing.”
However, it is not yet known how the world’s largest video sharing website suddenly got stalled. Experts believe that this may be due to some malfunction in its server.