YouTube back up after outage affects users worldwide

YouTube users are reporting outages worldwide. Photo / YouTube

Thousands of internet users reported issues this afternoon accessing YouTube content, in what appears to be a global site outage for the video platform.

The site appears to now be back up.

However, earlier today, while the website itself appeared to still be loading, videos could not be played.

YouTube posted about it on Twitter, saying the team was aware of the outage and working to fix it.

If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We’ll follow up here with any updates.

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

The issue affected users of both the free and premium service.

Me running to Twitter to see if anybody else’s YouTube isn’t working #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/aHv9pQC4uc

— Jose (@JZepeda_13) November 12, 2020