New Delhi: Video-sharing application YouTube reported mass outage for thousand of its users in the early hours of Wednesday. According to the company, users from different countries were not able to sign into their accounts, use the navigation bar, and other issues. Announcing the outage at around 2:00 am IST on April 13, YouTube posted on Twitter, “Getting reports from around the globe the that some of you are having trouble with certain features across YouTube services (e.g. logging in, switching accounts & using the navigation bar) – we’re aware & working on a fix.
Later, YouTube said that it has fixed issues that had disrupted certain features for several thousands of its users across the online video sharing and social media platform. “All fixed – you should now be able to log in, switch between accounts, and use the account menu & navigation bar across all services (YouTube, YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Studio) and devices,” YouTube tweeted.
Nearly 10,000 users had reported issues with the service on Downdetector, a website that tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Logging in, switching accounts and using the navigation bar were among the issues faced by users, YouTube tweeted at the time of disruption. Users had also reported issues with accessing live television platform YouTube TV, according to the outage-tracking website.
