YouTube and its services have been hit by a global outage

YouTube was hit by an outage overnight from Wednesday to Thursday (illustration).

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YouTube was the victim of a complete blackout on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

For almost an hour, users were unable to watch a video on the platform.

Malfunctions have also been observed on certain other services, specifies

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YouTube TV and downloading movies or series via Google TV have also been affected.

On its Twitter account, YouTube reported the problem at 1:23 am French time, telling people experiencing difficulties that they were "not alone".

The outage has indeed impacted users around the world.

During the period in question, the DownDetector site thus received reports of malfunctions from Brazil, the United States and even South Korea.

Europe and Australia have also been impacted.

... 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

Problem solved

The portal referenced nearly 280,000 reports in less than an hour at the time of the peak of the failure.

At the same time, Internet searches for a "YouTube outage" have increased.

“Our team is aware of the issue and is working on a resolution,” YouTube said in its initial Twitter post.

We will keep you informed of the latest developments here.

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The Google-owned online video giant posted a second message at 3:13 am “And we're back,” it read.

We are very sorry for the interruption.

This is all resolved across all YouTube devices and services, thank you for being patient with us.

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