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YouTube DOWN! Angry users report facing difficulties in playing videos as platform faces outage
YouTube down: It appears that the online video sharing and social media platform YouTube is facing an outage based on reports. Hundreds of users have reported facing challenges in running basic functionalities of the website including playing a video and loading pages after searching for a particular keyword. At this moment, it is not clear how widespread the issue is, but the majority of the reports have been coming in from the USA. The issue was recorded by DownDetector, an independent outage monitor, which noticed huge spikes for YouTube since today morning. Based on the reports, it does not seem that the issue has been resolved as of yet.