YouTube went down for thousands of users, but it’s now fixed

Earlier today, a lot of users were not able to access YouTube services. Thousands of users around the world took to Twitter to complain about not being able to use YouTube for around 2 hours. Several users reported that an unknown error caused video playback issues. Those who were watching the videos noticed that quality was dropping from a standard resolution to very low quality and then crashing entirely.

As per the Down Detector website, around 90 per cent of the users had issues in watching YouTube videos and 7 per cent of users were not able to access the website. Additionally, around 2 per cent of users were also facing YouTube login issues. At around 8:41AM, there were more than 10,000 complaints about YouTube not working.