YouTube Goes Down for Some Users

 By 
Seth Fiegerman
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YouTube Goes Down for Some Users
The YouTube website shown on a computer on March 18, 2010. Credit: Richard Vogel

Some YouTube users experienced rare disruptions from the service on Wednesday.

DownRightNow, which tracks outages for popular sites, said that YouTube was evincing a "likely service disruption." The outage comes just one day after Twitter experienced a massive outage on the web and on mobile.

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A rep for YouTube could not immediately confirm the outage, or the reason for it.

Twitter was down yesterday, now it is YouTube down.— Joe Pennington (@5NEWSJoe) March 12, 2014

Youtube is down. Millions of people have nothing left to do at their jobs but work. Horrifying. #youtube #thehorror— Andrew Lynagh (@comicmonkey) March 12, 2014

But my cat just did a thing! RT @ethanklapper: YouTube is down pic.twitter.com/4upkmASj0K— Neetzan Zimmerman (@neetzan) March 12, 2014

Yes. @YouTube is down or having issues for some people. @SoundCloud having trouble too. #youtubedown pic.twitter.com/pRe168K8ZD— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarraUK) March 12, 2014

UPDATE 3:35 pm ET Weds: A rep for YouTube confirmed that "some" users had problems accessing the video service on Wednesday, but no reason was provided for the disruption.

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