Update: YouTube claimed early Wednesday that everything had been rectified & it was back Online full-steam.
EARLIER……..
We were 1st alerted by our reader late on Tuesday, Oct 16, & on cross-checking realized he was right. YouTube is out in many parts of the world. See above image. According to downtime tracker DownDetector, viewers in many parts of US, Canada, Australia & India are seeing a 503 Internal server error. No official word yet from Google for the outage.
Keep watching this space.
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