YouTube Suffers Massive Global Outage; Social Media Goes In Meltdown Mode

Popular video streaming platform YouTube suffered a massive global outage, with multiple users reporting issues on Wednesday morning. Users across the world were confronted with an 'Error 500' message when they tried to login, upload, or watch content.

The Google-owned video streaming platform remained inaccessible for over 30 minutes and social media platforms were flooded with complaints from users. With the barrage of complaints, YouTube soon issued a statement, apologising to people.

“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 apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.”

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.

— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018

With server issues being reported from multiple area, #YouTubeDOWN started trending in India and across the world.

#YouTubeDOWN

Every impatient millennial YouTube star tonight. pic.twitter.com/vXg6u4SYWQ

— Jes (@DoYouEvenLIf) October 17, 2018

I survived the great #YouTubeDOWN of 2018 pic.twitter.com/0pGKsXjYMS

— 🧘🏻♀️ Internal Commentary🥰 (@GlueNotGlitter) October 17, 2018

Imagine all the youtubers thinking “oh no, I have to get a real job” after seeing youtube down

#YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/KoN1obCUZv

— Abraham Cavazos (@cavazus) October 17, 2018

Not even YouTube could survive. It was only a matter of time. #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/IaD8I5LgkS

— Drake Sullivan (@DrakeSullivan7) October 17, 2018

After the outage, which lasted for about 45 minutes, the video streaming platform is finally back online.