YouTube back up after worldwide outage

Reuters

Published Nov 11, 2020 07:54PM ET

Updated Nov 11, 2020 10:10PM ET

(Reuters) - YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google (O:GOOGL), said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service.

DownDetector.com, a website which monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the service.

The issue started at around 6:53 p.m. ET (23:53 GMT), according to Downdetector.com, with users complaining about trouble in watching videos on the platform.

"We're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services," YouTube said in a tweet https:// without explaining what had caused the outage.