Yes, YouTube was down this morning

YouTube suffered a major outage this morning. The service is now back online.

Service back online after video-sharing platform suffers major outage (REUTERS)

YouTube suffered a major global outage this morning with the video-sharing platform failing to play videos. The outage affected users in the US, Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, and India. The service is now back online.

According to downdetector, YouTube users started facing issues with the platform around 5 AM IST. The tracker reveals most users faced difficulties with watching videos. Uploading videos was also affected. Affected users took to Twitter to raise the problem.

Did I really just search up how to fix youtube in youtube ? #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/W24j9qXf3e

— Editz On Stickz #OneOfAkind (@TubeEditz) November 12, 2020

everyone leaving twitter again because youtube is back working #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/pwB5kEGT3s

— aoife (@seanxconr) November 12, 2020

#YouTubeDOWN
Me waiting for youtube to fix itself: pic.twitter.com/Vxf1PgoK23

— Anurag (@sarcasm_world_) November 12, 2020

YouTube was quick to acknowledge the issue and said it was working on a fix.

After almost two hours of outage, YouTube said the service was back online, without divulging the reason for the outage.

...And we're back – we're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services, thanks for being patient with us ❤️ https://t.co/1s0qbxQqc6

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

“And we're back – we're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services, thanks for being patient with us,” the company said in a tweet.

Internet services often face outages. Just a couple of weeks ago, Twitter went down in India and other parts of the world. In August this year, Google users faced problems with Gmail, Google Drive, and other Google service for multiple hours.