YouTube back online after site struggles to play video
YouTube has confirmed you can start procrastinating again after a global issue made it unable to stream videos.
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YouTube is back online after experiencing technical difficulties, with videos on the site not playing for users around the world.
A spike in reports of problems on the website began flooding in at around 10.45am AEDT, with thousands of reports being collated by the website status monitor DownDetector.
YouTube confirmed the issue and said it was working to fix it.
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If youâre having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, youâre not alone â our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. Weâll follow up here with any updates.
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020
By 12.50pm a test by news.com.au found the site was again able to load and play videos.
At around 1.15pm the company confirmed it was back online.
...And weâre back â weâre so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services, thanks for being patient with us â¤ï¸ https://t.co/1s0qbxQqc6
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020
“How many people do y’all think called the local police because YouTube is down?” One complainant on DownDetector asked.
While it’s unlikely anyone actually called the police, YouTube users have been complaining on Twitter.
Everyone running to Twitter to see if YouTube is broken for everyone #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/I0p3FmGtI1
— ð¦ð¸ð±ð¼ð©ðª (@DrizzyKev) November 12, 2020
Me reading Twitter about how YouTube is broken while waiting for YouTube to unbroken itself.https://t.co/O5OxDPvJLf pic.twitter.com/4016UZnNTn
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) November 12, 2020
Is ... YouTube broken right now?
— AmaLee (@LeeandLie) November 12, 2020
Me after wasting 10 minutes thinking chrome was broken but it was YouTube #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/HHiCHntaP6
— Jonah Corona (@Jsanderson5959) November 12, 2020
not youtube being broken when i have to watch 3 videos for class pic.twitter.com/KPls2aF0i1
— kenâ· goes on (@jinnieday) November 12, 2020
Originally published as YouTube back online after site struggles to play video