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YouTubethe world's most popular video site, is experiencing technical issues worldwide and is down for most users. YouTube users took to social media to discuss the issue and have reported that the outage is affecting both desktop and mobile versions of Google's video service.
As the world leader in user-submitted video content, YouTube videos have been a global pastime since the 2000s. Along with short films and long videos, YouTube has grown into a popular streaming service. Additionally, users can watch traditional TV shows and movies through the YouTube TV subscription service. While YouTube's policy has been controversial, it hasn't stopped users from coming back to watch their favorite content creators on the platform.
YouTube users report widespread outages on the site
However, YouTube users who want to catch up on certain videos are unable to do so as of this writing. User reports on DownDetector indicated that YouTube has experienced a massive service outage since 7:40 PM Eastern. As of 8:10 PM Eastern, 338,308 user reports were posted on DownDetector about the ongoing YouTube outage. While some features, such as the Subscriptions tab and live channel pages, still work, the YouTube and YouTube TV home pages are inaccessible to most users.
This is a news item in development. Information about the YouTube outage will be updated here as soon as it becomes available.
