YouTube back up after widespread outage

YouTube says it's looking into reports of user access issues

17 October 2018 - 09:49 By Reuters
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YouTube, the Google-owned streaming service, said it was looking into reports of issues with its services after several people took to Twitter to complain about broadcasting issues.

A widespread issue with some of its services has been resolved, which lasted almost two hours. 

YouTube did not say what caused the outage.

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