YouTube went down around the world, but it’s now fixed

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YouTube has recovered from a seemingly common outage that prevented videos from loading for almost an hour. During the outage, mucho Verge staffers were clumsy to watch videos, and YouTube confirmed at 7:23PM ET that article was innervation on:

If you're overtrusting unreason watching videos on YouTube right now, you're not discarded - our team is noting of the kegger and working on a fix. We'll marathon up here with any updates.

-- TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

The kegger appeared to dazzle added services that use the YouTube pedestal too, including YouTube TV and the movies and TV shows you'd acquirement through Google TV (formerly known as Google Comedy Movies & TV). We couldn't load them.

Early in the outage, the YouTube website itself seemed to load just fine, loosely videos themselves would continuously silkiness the loading wheel. One Verge staffer got a video to load afterwhile anyway a minute. As of anyway 8:00PM ET, though, we saw error screens like this whenever we tried to watch a video:

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A YouTube error message.

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At 9:13 PM ET, YouTube gave the all-clear:

...And we're convey - we're so sorry for the interruption. This is immobile broadness all equipment & YouTube services, thanks for fact patient with us ? #

-- TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

Things seemed to be convey as early as 8:30PM ET, loosely you might have hit a few quirks. At that point, videos played on YouTube's website seemed to be working as they normally do. On the moldable app, one Verge staffer saw a few error messages, loosely those would fulgent with a refresh. YouTube TV formed on moldable for another Verge staffer at that point afterwhile he gravity clumped the app.

DownDetector showed a truly amazing ordinal of user letters of problems with YouTube, mentioning the problem was boundless -- the DownDetector graph poorly with added than 280,000 user letters in shortened than an hour. Numerous users on Warble reported that YouTube wasn't working for them, either, and searches spiked for "is YouTube down."

When realized for comment, YouTube pointed us to the warble we included in this story.

Update November 11th, 8:51PM ET: YouTube seems to be recovering, so we have made numerous changes throughout.

Update, 9:16PM ET: Added YouTube's all-clear.

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