YouTube went down Wednesday morning for the first time in forever
YouTube suffered a major outage this morning that appeared to affect most of its users worldwide. Although the site was back up again within the hour, it marks the first major outage for the Google-owned service in years.
The outage began at about 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time. As soon as it happened, frustrated users noted the outage on Twitter.
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YouTube service appeared to be restored for most users as of about 8:15 a.m. ET.
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While many Internet services have suffered outages over the last few years, including Twitter, Pinterest, Google Drive and even 1.6-billion-strong Facebook, YouTube has been more or less immune from global, crippling outages -- at least until this morning. The last major outage for the service was in November 2013, although it experienced a minor disruption in March 2014.
While it may be surprising a service that's responsible for roughly 18% of Internet traffic would be so stable, it's no doubt in part due to its constant straightforwardness: While its contemporaries have added more and more features and real-time interactions for its users, YouTube's basic product remains the same -- a destination for uploading and viewing video.
According to a source, the outage happened during some routine engineering updates and YouTube service was fully disabled worldwide for approximately 15 minutes.
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Pete Pachal was Mashable’s Tech Editor and had been at the company from 2011 to 2019. He covered the technology industry, from self-driving cars to self-destructing smartphones.Pete has covered consumer technology in print and online for more than a decade. Originally from Edmonton, Canada, Pete first uploaded himself into technology journalism at Sound & Vision magazine in 1999. Pete also served as Technology Editor at Syfy, creating the channel's technology site, DVICE (now Blastr), out of some rusty HTML code and a decompiled coat hanger. He then moved on to PCMag, where he served as the site's News Director.Pete has been featured on Fox News, the Today Show, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC and CBC.Pete holds degrees in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax and engineering from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. His favorite Doctor Who monsters are the Cybermen.
