Is YouTube down? Thousands of Brits report major outage - has Google said anything about it?
Thousands of people across the UK seem to be having problems with YouTube today, according to reports.
Brits have been reporting issues with the video-sharing website in their thousands today, with downdetector.com showing a major spike in outage claims.
Figures show that around 1pm today (December 19), more than 5,000 people logged into the website to report that YouTube is down.
When trying to load the website on their computers, users were being met with a 502 error.
The error message said: “The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.”
According to some people on X, YouTube crashed for around an hour, and there was no word from Google - the company that owns YouTube - about fixing the issue.
At the time of publication, the glitch seems to have been resolved; YouTube is loading once again (albeit slowly) and you can watch videos as per usual.