YouTube Restored After Worldwide Outage That Impacted 286,000 Viewers

YouTube on November 11 announced that it had fixed a technical glitch that triggered a mass outage of its video-streaming service worldwide impacting nearly 286,000 users. The firm owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google GOOGL.O, said late on Wednesday in a tweet that the issue which hampered the website at around 6:53 PM ET (23:53 GMT) was fixed across all devices and YouTube services. “We`re so sorry for the interruption, thanks for being patient with us,” it added in a tweet. If you were seeing errors in YouTube Studio in the last hour when trying to upload, go live, manage, edit videos, etc, this is now fully resolved. We really appreciate your patience while we fixed this,” the firm said on Twitter, adding that the team was aware of the issue and was attempting to resolve it. During the outage, customers managed to load the YouTube website but the videos displayed a loading wheel and error screens that read “An error occurred (Playback ID: [a unique alphanumeric string goes here]) Tap to retry).”At about 9:13 PM ET, YouTube identified the glitch after umpteen number of users reported the issue to DownDetector and its graph peaked with more than 280,000 in about an hour.