Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

YouTube Back Up After Short Worldwide Outage


Thu 12 Nov 2020 | 06:01 AM
Mohammad Elzoheiry

The famous videos website YouTube announced in the early hours of Thursday morning that it has dealt with a technical malfunction that led to problems with the site for a short period.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1326709701526974464?s=19

Google's video service has suffered a sudden malfunction and the website's page suddenly crashed and was unable to play any videos, and displayed the following message:

An error occurred. Please try again later. Playback ID.

For its part, YouTube immediately said it was "working on fixing an error on its platform".

"Youtube down" hashtag topped Twitter, amid questions about the causes of the malfunction that afflicted the site.

Downdetector.com, which monitors website malfunctions, said that this malfunction affected about 250,000 users.