YouTube back online after video platform suffers major outage worldwide

YouTube, the world’s biggest video streaming platform, suffered a major global outage for at least an hour on Wednesday morning.

The issue was first reported by worldwide users on social media at around 9.20am, but the website was back up about an hour later for some users in Hong Kong. The reason for the outage, a rare incident for the company with more than 1.8 billion monthly users, is still not publicly known.

YouTube said on Twitter at 11am that the problem had been fixed, but did not explain what happened.

Google, the owner of YouTube, did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

YouTube TV and YouTube Music also experienced the service disruption.