YouTube, the popular video sharing site we all know and love, was apparently not working yesterday. I wasn’t aware of when this happened, or how long it went on, but everyone seems to know that it is back up. Now, how do so many people know the approximate time YouTube started running again? Social media, of course! The mashable article “We Interrupt Our Regular Programming: YouTube Is Down [UPDATE: It's Back]” includes these three updates:
Update: Interestingly enough, the videos on YouTube seem to work, only the front page seems to be affected.
*Update #2: We’ve received the following short message from Google: “YouTube is temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are currently working to restore the site.”
*Update #3: It’s back. The downtime lasted approximately one hour.
I’d also like to point out that even the article itself included various posts within the hour offering updates regarding the status of YouTube.
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YouTube was down and when you think of the millions of people who use this site everyday there could have been a backlash against the web site but instead YouTube did an excellent job keeping their publics up to date on everything they were working on and let them know how much longer it would be and when exactly it would be fixed. Great Job YouTube! I knew there was a reason I liked them so much! :)
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