Millions of people were left without access to YouTube on Thursday morning after the world's largest streaming site went down.
Just after midnight, reports began to spike on outage tracker DownDetector that the platform wasn't working - with videos apparently unable to load or play.
YouTube later confirmed that users were unable to play videos - before eventually resolving the issue an hour later.
In the US alone, more than 260,000 people reported at first that the streaming platform crashed.
In Britain, that number sat at almost 50,000 without access to the website.
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UK users were split on the exact type of outage, with 58 per cent saying they suffered issues with videos loading.
A further 35 per cent listed the main issue as the app, with eight per cent pointing to the website more generally.
Just before the clocks struck 12 in the UK, just three users had flagged issues with the website.
But a quarter of an hour later, that number shot up past 30,000 - before almost doubling in the next 15 minutes.
As well as the principal YouTube website, the streamer's other domains like YouTube Music, YouTubeTV and even Google itself saw huge surges in DownDetector reports
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In America, those numbers were far higher, shooting from 220,000 to 330,000 in a matter of minutes after 12.15am.
Reports initially appeared to have peaked at around 12.30am.
But a consistent level of reports worldwide were still being filed at 1am, indicating the outage may have lasted longer than first thought.
Then, YouTube itself addressed the outage, saying: "If you’re not able to play videos on YouTube right now - we’re on it! Thanks for your patience."
As well as the principal YouTube website, the streamer's other domains like YouTube Music, YouTubeTV and even Google itself saw huge surges in DownDetector reports.
YouTube itself addressed the outage, saying: 'If you’re not able to play videos on YouTube right now - we’re on it! Thanks for your patience'
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On social media, fury broke out at the prospect of losing out on the Google-owned site's array of content - YouTube is the world's second-most visited website, according to analysis by Semrush and Similarweb.
Over one billion hours of footage are watched every day on YouTube - meaning more than 41 million hours of viewing could have been affected by the blip.
The hashtag #youtubedown garnered almost 12,000 posts on Elon Musk's platform X alone.
On X, one commentator voiced their dismay within seconds, fuming: "YouTube down when I literally just sat down to eat dinner!"
Another said: "YouTube’s down. Had to eat without watching a video. Feels like I’m living in 2003."
One more even claimed the site, which made headlines just days ago after GB News smashed the two-million subscriber mark, may have been hacked, adding: "I've never seen this happen before."
Shortly before 1.30am BST, YouTube confirmed the outage was over.
"Confirming this is resolved across all YouTube services," an update on YouTube Help said. "Thanks again for your patience!"
GB News has approached Google for comment regarding Thursday morning's outage.
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