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Widespread panic sets in
The YouTube outage is causing incredulity online, with many noting how rare this is.
Of course, speculation is rife about the potential cause, with Downdetector showing spikes for AWS and Cloudflare – but they aren’t notable ones and it’s still too early to tell.
I’m still being met by a blank screen on thw website and in the mombile app…
‘Something went wrong’
This is the highly unusual error message that many are seeing right now when trying to watch YouTube in the mobile app – and it’s affecting the web version too.
The world’s favorite video site is still struggling almost an hour on from the issues first started. There’s no official cause for the problems yet with nothing on Google’s status page, but this appears to be more than a brief blip…
A huge spike in reports
If you’re struggling with YouTube and YouTube TV right now, you’re definitely not alone – there’s been a huge spike of over 317,000 reports in the US and 38,000 in the UK.
The outage seems to be affecting both the website and mobile app for many, with the latter showing a ‘something went wrong’ message. In the US, YouTube TV is also down, with over 8,000 reports for the service, making this one of the biggest Google outages for some time.
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