YouTube outage affects 2.86 lakh users; error on platform; social media buffers with relatable memes

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, November 11

YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service.

DownDetector.com, a website which monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the service.

The issue started at around 6:53 p.m. ET (23:53 GMT), according to Downdetector.com, with users complaining about trouble in watching videos on the platform.

"We're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services," YouTube said in a tweet https://bit.ly/36r4sjz, without explaining what had caused the outage.

Google did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage.

When the netizens realised that their YouTube app weren't actually glitching, but it was a global outage of sorts—they expressed their frustration through hilarious memes. — With Reuters

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