YouTube remained down for a long time on today i.e. 28th February

According to a recent report, Google's YouTube video streaming service was unavailable for a significant portion of February.

On February 28, YouTube was unavailable to thousands of users, according to the outage monitoring website DownDetector.com.

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According to estimates from Down Detector, between 8,000 and 12,000 users reported issues with YouTube.

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By combining user-submitted defects and status information from various sources, the platform keeps track of outages.

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In accordance with a Down Detector research, 43% of people experience difficulties when streaming videos.

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