# YouTube down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077 "2018-10-17T01:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/1 "2018-10-17T01:49:02Z")
Can’t get it to load. Apparently 500 trained monkeys have been dispatched to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/2 "2018-10-17T01:51:40Z")
Glad to see it’s not just me. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/3 "2018-10-17T01:51:44Z")
Looks to be down. ☹ Just now from Twitter - ‏Verified account @TeamYouTube 12 minutes ago Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/4 "2018-10-17T02:00:27Z")
Yep. In sites with embeded videos, I’m seeing “internal server error” followed by a wall o’ gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/5 "2018-10-17T02:02:59Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yep. In sites with embeded videos, I’m seeing “internal server error” followed by a wall o’ gibberish. On my smart tv it just says, Unable to load. I’m so glad for Imgur at times like these. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/6 "2018-10-17T02:16:08Z")
[It appears to be worldwide](https://heavy.com/tech/2018/10/youtube-down/). I wish that I lived near some streets so that I could riot in them… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/7 "2018-10-17T02:26:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Can’t get it to load. Apparently 500 trained monkeys have been dispatched to fix it. That oughta do it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/8 "2018-10-17T03:03:52Z")
It’s up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/9 "2018-10-17T03:29:59Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Looks to be down. ☹ > Just now from Twitter - > > ‏Verified account @TeamYouTube > 12 minutes ago > > Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated. Nicely done there TeamYouTube, plugging two services that I’ve never heard of in a “Youtube is broken” message. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/10 "2018-10-17T04:54:49Z")
Until they resolve the issues, you can use their sister site, redtube. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/11 "2018-10-17T09:12:10Z")
Looks like it’s working now, at least for me. ---
**Author:** ![MasonJones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MasonJones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MasonJones)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/12 "2018-10-17T09:28:01Z")
Talking about Twitter… There was a glitch that sent a string of letters to various Twitter users by means of push notifications. Some of the affected even worried that iluminati was coming for them… I personally didnt receive any weird messages. Was anyone here affected and is the issue solved? ---
**Author:** ![Map\_Ylow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/map_ylow/32/85_2.png) [@Map\_Ylow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Map_Ylow)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/13 "2018-10-17T22:51:41Z")
The outage was related to Google+. There was a security breach that necessitated taking it down, but being as it’s integrated so closely into YouTube they may as well be Siamese twins, down went everything. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/14 "2018-10-18T04:40:21Z")
NetFlixTube and chill? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/15 "2018-10-18T06:03:03Z")
> [@Map\_Ylow](#): > > The outage was related to Google+. There was a security breach that necessitated taking it down, but being as it’s integrated so closely into YouTube they may as well be Siamese twins, down went everything. Any confirmation of that, or is that just your suspicion? Because my understanding is that they are phasing out Google+, not shutting it down. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/16 "2018-10-18T12:40:43Z")
> [@Map\_Ylow](#): > > The outage was related to Google+. There was a security breach that necessitated taking it down, but being as it’s integrated so closely into YouTube they may as well be Siamese twins, down went everything. There was a security hole found in Google+ … in March. They will be shutting down the _consumer_ side of Google+ over the next 10 months. The _business_ side will stay on. So, other than that … spot on!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Map\_Ylow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/map_ylow/32/85_2.png) [@Map\_Ylow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Map_Ylow)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-down/823077/17 "2018-10-20T02:50:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Any confirmation of that, or is that just your suspicion? Because my understanding is that they are phasing out Google+, not shutting it down. > [@ftg](#): > > There was a security hole found in Google+ … in March. They will be shutting down the _consumer_ side of Google+ over the next 10 months. The _business_ side will stay on. > > So, other than that … spot on!😉 Sorry, I phrased badly - they took it down temporarily to fix the security breach, I’m told. 🙂