The world’s most popular video platform YouTube suddenly experienced a major technical disruption on Tuesday, affecting millions of users in India, America and many other countries. Due to this global outage, people faced difficulties in watching videos, opening apps and websites and using other related services.
What did Google say?
After this problem came to light, Google officially accepted this technical glitch. The company’s official support team, TeamYouTube, released a public statement saying that they are aware of the issue and technical teams are working to fix it as soon as possible. Also, users were assured that updates will be given to them as soon as the situation improves.
According to Downdetector, a website that monitors technical disruptions, a sudden huge increase in the number of complaints was recorded during this period. In the US alone, more than 3.2 lakh people reported problems at the peak of the outage. In India too, a large number of users were affected and within a short time, more than 19 thousand complaints were received. This makes it clear that this problem was not limited to any one country or region, rather its impact was seen at the global level.
What did affected users say?
Affected users reported that they were seeing error messages when they tried to open an app or website. on many people’s screens "something went wrong" Like messages were appearing again and again and videos were not playing. Apart from this, there were also complaints of technical problems in YouTube TV and some other services of Google during this period, which indicated that the problem may be related to server or platform on a large scale.
Downdetector’s statistics are based on complaints sent by users and other technical signals. Therefore, the actual number of affected people may be much higher than this. During this outage, a large number of users shared their problems on social media and information about the platform being down came from many countries simultaneously.
However, after some time, the company’s technical teams intensified efforts to fix the problem and started working towards gradually normalizing the services, which is expected to provide relief to the users.
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