YouTube abruptly went down for around an hour on Tuesday evening. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized for the downtime but did not provide additional details for the outage. You were not alone — YouTube was down from approximately 6 p.m. to around 7:20 p.m on Tuesday. "Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues," a YouTube statement said. "We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated." Tech enthusiasts sounded the alarm after Google's streaming service abruptly displayed error messages and blank thumbnails on its website: "Never seen YouTube down for 30+ minutes like this before," Marques Brownlee, a popular YouTube video producer, said on Twitter. "how does youtube go down for an hour at this point -- that seems insane," tweeted New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac. The Philadelphia Police Department advised residents not to contact emergency services amidst the outage. "Yes, our @YouTube is down, too," the police department said on Twitter. "No, please don't call 911 - we can't fix it." At 8:00 p.m., the company announced the website was functioning again: "We're back! Thanks for all of your patience," YouTube said in a tweet. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki also apologized but did not provide additional details for the outage: "YouTube is back," Wojcicki said in a tweet. "Sorry to everyone who was impacted. Thank you to the teams who resolved this."<doc-sep>UPDATE: YouTube has returned to its former self, with users across the world breathing a collective sigh of relief. Almost two hours after the planet experienced the terrifying outage, representatives for the video streaming service reassured us all that the natural order of the world has been restored. We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6 — Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018 The Google-owned service acknowledged the global outage in a tweet at around 12.40pm, apologising for the inconvenience. Reports indicated that it’s main service was up and running again by 2pm. Ten minutes later, YouTube confirmed that service was restored in a tweet. However some users are still reporting issues with watching shows on YouTube TV. I still can’t watch any recorded shows on YouTube TV — Rebecca (@_becspot) October 17, 2018 EARLIER: YouTube users are reporting that the worldwide video streaming service is currently down and they're not impressed. The streaming website, which uploads 100 hours of content each minute, appears to be experiencing a worldwide service disruption. The outage has now stretched over an hour and has impacted YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music. Users, attempting to visit the site for their daily video fix, have reported seeing a blank website frame instead of the usual homepage and they … are … pissed. Youtube had a global outage. ooof. pic.twitter.com/AuT7tfhH4P — I Cant Think Of A Name (@criticals0up) October 17, 2018 Anyone know what happened to @YouTube ?? Because it won't load pic.twitter.com/MlYbNfqo16 — Priskillet™ (@priscillayrad) October 17, 2018 That last tweet is supposed to be a joke, but it’s now actually happening. While YouTube’s technicians are probably holed up in a basement somewhere trying to restore the server, some authorities have started begging people to leave them alone. The Philedelphia Police Department has had to request that people stop calling the emergency 911 number and leave the line open for, you know, real emergencies. YouTube has tweeted that the company is aware of the disruption to YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music and was working to fix it as soon as possible. Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated. — Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018 Millions of frantic YouTube fanatics swarmed on social media, desperate to find out what the hell was going on. One user even got her hands on a map of outage hot spots around the world, supplied by downdetector. Live outage map of where youtube is down (from downdetector) pic.twitter.com/tzU1Nv0N7q — margie🎃 (@bunnietaehyung) October 17, 2018 Anxious users, waiting for the site to be fixed have flooded Twitter with their thoughts and feelings on the unfolding global crisis. When #youtube is #down and you don’t know what to do with your life!! pic.twitter.com/SVSES3oGTu — GothamSeHuBC (@ridetravelplay) October 17, 2018 Without youtube humanity has conformed to its true ways pic.twitter.com/oHmL2Qcq9U — Evi (@spunkycookies) October 17, 2018 Currently 3:00 in the morning contemplating what to do as YouTube is Down... #YouTubeDOWN 🤔 pic.twitter.com/DB8jpkRuFO — 20IK🇵🇰🇹🇷🇨🇦! (@SyedAbbasPTI) October 17, 2018 This is a developing story. More to come.<doc-sep>WATCH: Caroline D'Amore Discusses 'Surreal' MTV's 'The Hills: New Beginnings' Experience & Pizza Girl BusinessThe Los Angeles native discusses what it was like to join the cast of "The Hills: New Beginnings" and her new line of sauce. SEC Football: CBS Sports Announces 2021 Schedule Including Alabama At Florida On September 18The SEC on CBS kicks off on September 18 with an SEC Championship game rematch between the Crimson Tide and Gators. Mayweather Vs. 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Manchester CityThe all England final featuring Chelsea and Manchester City is getting wall-to-wall coverage on CBS and various platforms. 📺📺📺<doc-sep>YouTube is experiencing a major outage. Users across the world started to notice that the video service’s sites and mobile apps were down around 9:20PM ET, and everything remains inaccessible more than an hour later. YouTube TV and YouTube Music are also affected by the service disruption. YouTube has acknowledged the outage in a tweet. “We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed,” the Team YouTube account says. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.” As of 10.35PM ET, the account is still replying to reports of the outage saying that the team is working on the problem. As with all Google-operated services, serious downtime for YouTube is pretty rare. YouTube TV did suffer service interruption at an inopportune time during this summer’s World Cup, however, and channel pages went down for a while in April. Perhaps most infamously, Pakistan’s government accidentally caused an hours-long global YouTube blackout a decade ago by attempting to censor a trailer for an anti-Islamic film. Update, 10:40PM ET: Multiple Verge staffers are reporting that service has been restored, though YouTube itself is yet to confirm a fix. Update, 11:01PM ET: YouTube says it has restored service, bringing the saga to an end. We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6 — Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018<doc-sep>
UPDATE: After a global outage that lasted over an hour, YouTube is back and up and running. The popular video-sharing service experienced a disruption earlier this evening for a long period of time, causing a panic amongst the Internet masses. After everyone was without their favorite videos, the site was finally restored and the official Team YouTube Twitter account comforted everyone saying: “We’re back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know.” No explanation for the outage has been released. PREVIOUS: Don’t be alarmed: YouTube is down…not just for you, but for everyone. The popular video sharing site is experiencing a major outage, leaving the world without puppy and cat videos and “major fail” clips. Users started reporting outages on Twitter around 6:30 PM PT and as of now, service has not been restored. The outage has also affected YouTube TV as well as YouTube Music. When the reports started pouring in, the official Team YouTube Twitter account took to Twitter saying: “Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.” It’s not the end of the world, but the YouTube outage is pretty major considering it rarely ever happens. Previous disruptions for the site included an outage during the Summer’s World Cup and in 2008 when the Pakistani government accidentally knocked the site offline when they attempted to censor an anti-Islamic movie.