In the early hours of this morning YouTube, including its TV and Music services, went down around the world, preventing users from accessing content.
The platform was fast to acknowledge the problem and tweeted that they was working on the issue. An hour later, it had been resolved.
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We’re back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018
Meanwhile many users showed off their panic, amusement and relief with a healthy influx of memes on Twitter under the hashtag #YouTubeDOWN.
I survived the great #YouTubeDOWN of 2018 pic.twitter.com/0pGKsXjYMS
—
Internal Commentary (@GlueNotGlitter) October 17, 2018
Every impatient millennial YouTube star tonight. pic.twitter.com/vXg6u4SYWQ
— Jes (@DoYouEvenLIf) October 17, 2018
this is all the youtubers realizing they needed to get a job when youtube was down #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/hxIluofKF4
— 𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖔 𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖆 (@emilioomedina) October 17, 2018
This is my favorite tweets from #YoutubeDown
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🅸🆁🅳🅸🅴 (@ThisBotLovesBTS) October 17, 2018
Felt like 2004 when you were gone. #YouTubeDOWN
— BettyJones (@Bettyjones56) October 17, 2018
I was sleeping through the #YouTubeDOWN and I feel like I’ve escaped the world ending on Twitter lol pic.twitter.com/m7pASeWI6g
— Spooked Simself
(@simselfseries) October 17, 2018
Me trying to entertain myself after YouTube being down for only an hour #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/1n7jVCEphH
— lauren (@lauren75506935) October 17, 2018
There’s no word on what caused the outage.
Feature image: YouTube
