YOUTUBE DOWN UPDATE: YouTube went back online for most users around one and a half hours after it initially went down. The outage began around 2pm BST. At the peak of the outage, almost 16,000 reports of YouTube down were being registered on Down Detector. The outage mainly affected people in America, but Down Detector UK also reported hundreds of issues. ORIGINAL: YouTube is suffering outages at the moment with thousands of users reporting issues on Down Detector. It appears that the popular video streaming site went offline around 2pm BST with thousands of users unable to access content.



Social media sites were flooded with complaints, with streams of YouTube users saying the Google-owned site was not working for them.



Independent website Down Detector, which measures social mentions around a certain topic to track outages across the globe, shows the problem mainly affecting regions in the US.

GETTY • YOUTUBE YouTube is down right now with thousands of users complaining of outages

DOWNDETECTOR Thousands of people have reported that YouTube is down on Downdetector

Almost two thirds of users reported having issues with watching videos on YouTube.



Down Detector stats also showed 28 per cent of YouTube users having issues with simply viewing the website and nine per cent having login issues.



More than 15,000 users have reported issues with the site, and it comes a week after another outage hit YouTube.



The outage today began around 2pm BST and the amount of users reporting issues with the site has rapidly increased since then.

DOWNDETECTOR Downdetector heatmap showing areas where YouTube users are experiencing outages

TWITTER The error screen YouTube users received when logging onto the video streaming site

The Down Detector live heat map showed the areas where YouTube users were experiencing outages. YouTube users in the United States, Mexico and Brazil are currently the main ones reporting that the site is not working for them.



The bulk of outage reports are coming from America, but there were hundreds of people in the UK and Europe also reporting issues with the site.

@YouTube think your site is down or something happened pic.twitter.com/xmoFF4g32z — Chris (@bimmermann118) June 16, 2017

What's up with #YouTube this morning? Servers down? — In Jesus I Trust (@josephneigh) June 16, 2017

YouTube is down like it's a sign of the times. pic.twitter.com/cVNiB4jQTd — Drew Blumer. (@AndrewBlumer) June 16, 2017

People all over the world reacting to #YouTube going down. #FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/ohHREXwZ7c — Old School Vlog (@oldschoolvlog) June 16, 2017

The YouTube down reports had a peak of 15,732, and then fell to just over 8,000 before it shot up again to over the 10,000 marker.



After more than an hour down, reports of the outage on Down Detector sharply fell - with around 2,000 people reporting YouTube is down just after 3pm BST.



At 3.20pm BST, the reports on Down Detector of YouTube outages fell to just over two hundred as the issue appeared to be resolved.



However, there were still people experiencing problems - including in Japan and Australia.

DOWNDETECTOR Downdetector heat map showing YouTube outages at 3.20pm on Friday, with issues in Japan & Australia

DOWNDETECTOR Downdetector chart showing YouTube outage reports fall from a peak of over 15,000 to a few hundred

YouTube users flooded social media site Twitter with complaints, sharing pictures of error pages appearing with the message "500 Internal Server Error".



One user tweeted: “#Youtube is down, has anyone run into the same problem?”



Another posted: “Looks like @YouTube is down, crazy how quickly people go to social media to voice their concern.”



While one YouTube user posted on Twitter: "What's up with YouTube website? Whatever that could temporarly shot them down like that is huge."

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