YouTube website experienced a global outage today. Thousands of users can not access several live streams during that time, as per reports by BleepingComputer.
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A tweet posted by NetBlocks also confirmed that the website is down and said that the problem is not related to internet problems.
ℹ️ Note: YouTube is experiencing international outages with live streams impacted; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #YouTubeDown pic.twitter.com/Jay24MxBlL
— NetBlocks (@netblocks) September 23, 2022
Black screens with a loading animation with a note "please try again later" was seen on YouTube streams when attempted to open. The Sun also reported that some people were able to access these but experienced a laggy stream with 'buggy' live chat.
A certain video game streamer switched to Twitch as they experienced the problem. These are the tweets under the #YouTubeDown hashtag on Twitter that several users complained about regarding the issue.
YouTube live streaming is down... #YouTubeDown
— Lonnie (@Lonnie_Gaming) September 23, 2022
Facing This problem?#Yt Down #YoutubeDown #YouTube pic.twitter.com/swxY1SyHfw
— Nitesh Keer (@NiteshKeer9) September 23, 2022
YouTube Down in India? #YouTubeDown
— 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓼𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓮 (@roshan_sultane) September 23, 2022
Percentage of Reports
Downdetector revealed that 77% or thousand of reports from different users experienced problems in live streaming. A certain person from the comment section of the site stated. "I went to four streams and they were putting in the buffering symbol."
Fortunately, YouTube has no longer any current problems as shown in Downdetector.
YouTube's Response
As of the moment, YouTube has not released any detailed information regarding the incident. No confirmations if the maintenance is caused by the platform's servers or malicious activity.
YouTube stated on Google Support that the problem was acknowledged and hopes that this will not happen again as they work on a "permanent fix."
hey creators! we’re aware that some of you may be having issues with livestreaming right now
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) September 23, 2022
you should be good to go if you make a new livestream, but we’re currently working on a permanent fix & will keep you posted ❤️🩹
follow along for updates here ➡️https://t.co/mtuHYksBA6
At around 1:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, the outage has been fixed by YouTube and tweeted on their @YoutubeTeam official Twitter account thanking the users who reported the incident and promising to update on the Twitter thread as they investigate the outage.
#YouTubeDown Last Year
Last year, YouTube also experienced an outage together with Gmail and Google Search. The platform was acquired by Google worth $1.6 billion in 2005 which is not surprising for these three to experience an outage at the same time.
Endless loading of videos during the outage was experienced by many users and a "Report the Issue" note has appeared on their screens.
Some users were still able to access the services from these platforms despite being down for hours. But just like what happened today, YouTube did not reveal any confirmation on how the problem occurred and how big the problem is.
It was later on revealed that the affected users of these problems were mostly from Europe.
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Written by Inno Flores
