YouTube suffered a major a outage Monday as users took to Twitter alerting the platform, who instantly responded with:
We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news.
Citing a “problem with the server” the app refused to load with users complaining that all Google services were down, including the Drive and Gmail.
The hashtag #YouTubeDOWN is now trending on Twitter with some 102K hits and rising.
Google was prior hit by significant outage in August, which also took down its suite of online services and YouTube, with the products experiencing another smaller outage last month.
The Google search engine is still working per usual.
[This is an updating story]
4:40PM GST, Dubai-time: Both the web and app platforms are now back online.
Apr 25 2024
