YouTube down irritates its global users

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YouTube service has been restored after the Google-owned streaming company went dark for over an hour worldwide.

Thousands of YouTube users attempting to visit the site reported seeing a blank website frame instead of the usual homepage.

YouTube homepage greeted users with an error message: "An error occurred. Please try again later." /Screenshot from YouTube

Irritated users took to social media to confirm that their location was also experiencing the same access issues.

Screenshot from a Twitter

YouTube acknowledged the outage in a tweet. "We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed," the Team YouTube account said. "We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated."

Screenshot via Twitter

So far it's not clear what was behind the sudden breakdown.