YouTube Down: Video Sharing Platform Is Now Back Online After Outage

Users around the world have been reporting issues trying to play videos

YouTube is now back online after experiencing technical difficulties earlier today. Users around the world have been reporting issues trying to access the online video sharing platform.

 

Thousands of user reports on the website began flooding in at the website status monitor DownDetector. at around 10.45am AEDT.

 

YouTube confirmed the technical issue and said it was working to fix the problem.

“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,” Google said in a statement.

 

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

 

At around 1.15pm the company confirmed it was back online.

YouTube users have been complaining on social media about the incident..