YouTube Goes Down for Some Users
WHAT'S THIS? The YouTube website shown on a computer on March 18, 2010. IMAGE: RICHARD VOGEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS BY SETH FIEGERMAN 5 HOURS AGO Some YouTube users experienced rare disruptions from the service on Wednesday. DownRightNow , which tracks outages for popular sites, said that YouTube was evincing a "likely service disruption." The outage comes just one day after Twitter experienced a massive outage on the web and on mobile. A rep for YouTube could not immediately confirm the outage, or the reason for it. UPDATE 3:35 pm ET Weds : A rep for YouTube confirmed that "some" users had problems accessing the video service on Wednesday, but no reason was provided for the disruption. "Some people encountered errors, or a slower than normal experience on YouTube today," the rep said in a statement provided to Mashable . "We worked quickly to address the issue and fixed the problem. We're sorry for any inconvenienc