Wednesday morning brought an unexpected boost of productivity in offices around the world thanks to the temporary absence of one of the web’s best distractors, YouTube. The video streaming service was temporarily unaccessible for many users.
Youtube is down since 07:23 AM ESThttps://t.co/8B06O9Ooyi
— Outage.Report (@ReportOutage) June 22, 2016
RT if it’s down for you as well #youtubedown pic.twitter.com/ubvwZnABB3
The outage occurred around 7:23am ET. During the down time, many of the site’s one billion users were greeted with a message assuring them that, “A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.”
Nice 500 @YouTube pic.twitter.com/fQxK0L4jZz
— Retrogeekchak (@chakib_melaika) June 22, 2016
Many hoping to hop online for a quick video fix in the morning were forced instead to think of clever ways to complain on Twitter about YouTube being down.
YouTube is down. I’ll start packing my things in case it’s forever.
— Rob Pearson (@rob_pearson86) June 22, 2016
Ok. It looks like youtube is down for most people. We should all huddle together. Everything will be ok I promise.
— Stampy Cat (@stampylongnose) June 22, 2016
YouTube is down. An entire generation stumbles into the street, deprived of news, beauty tips and Minecraft videos. Riots are coming.
— Adam Tinworth (@adders) June 22, 2016
you guys, youtube is down!! enjoy this, a few blissfull minutes during which we are, at last, free from youtube commenters
— Ryan North 🦖 🪄 🐶 💪 4️⃣ (@ryanqnorth) June 22, 2016
The Daily Dot was informed that the outage was the result of a routine engineering push that took YouTube down globally for about 15 minutes.
In a typical 15 minute period on YouTube, about 4,500 hours of footage would be uploaded and over 4,845 days worth of video would be watched.
According to Outage Report, a website dedicated to tracking user reports down time of various websites, Wednesday morning generated the highest amount of YouTube outage claims in Outage Report’s history.
At the time of publication, some users in Europe claimed to still be unable to access the video streaming platform.
H/T TheNextWeb
