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YouTube services ‘back to normal’ after glitch hits users in US, Singapore, Australia and India
A glitch in YouTube's recommendations system caused a global outage affecting over 837,000 users in the U.S. alone, disrupting video playback and homepage features.
- YouTube experienced a global outage that affected video availability across multiple platforms and regions, including the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Germany, and Southeast Asia, with total outage reports exceeding 1.6 million at the peak.
- The outage was caused by a problem with YouTube's recommendation system, preventing videos from appearing on the homepage and various apps, as confirmed by Google and a YouTube representative.
- Reports of disruptions peaked at different times globally, with over 800,000 US reports around 5:45 p.m. PT and significant incidents in other countries including Singapore and Southeast Asia.
- YouTube publicly acknowledged the issue on social media and their support pages, confirming the problem was resolved and their teams had investigated the cause.
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The YouTube platform officially confirmed that the technical problems that during the morning made it impossible to access the platform around the world have been solved.Users around the world faced an unusual problem: when opening the YouTube application or page, instead of content, blank screens appeared, error messages such as “Something went wrong” or endless uploading.The YouTube team, through the official “TeamYouTube” account, announced t…
YouTube announced that it has solved the global breakdown that has disrupted its recommendation system and deprived hundreds of thousands of users of access to videos. ...
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