A number of social media web sites are experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. YouTube confirmed that some customers are having bother loading movies on the platform; in the meantime, platforms like Discord and Meta’s Threads, Facebook and Instagram are down as nicely.
In accordance with a put up on Google’s support page, customers could also be experiencing an empty house web page, error messages, spinning wheels whereas scrolling on Shorts, and operating out of movies to look at on Shorts’ infinite feed.
“Rest assured we’re working on a fix now!” the put up says.
YouTube additionally shared an replace on its X account, which hyperlinks to the assist web page.
The basis trigger of those widespread outages stays unclear. Typically, a number of platforms go down on the identical time in the event that they’re utilizing the identical cloud computing providers, like AWS. However AWS is not reporting any issues; plus, firms like Meta and Google are giant sufficient to function information facilities independently of suppliers like AWS, making outages of this nature unusual.
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