It’s not just you; YouTube is down across the web. As of 2:44PM PST, the world’s most popular video streaming site is displaying a “500 Internal Server Error” on its main sites and videos embedded into other sites.
We have verified on different devices on different networks that YouTube is indeed down across the board. iOS devices show an authentication error when trying to access the YouTube App and Android devices show the same “500” error that’s displayed on the web.
YouTube: Some people are encountering errors, or a slower than normal experience on YouTube. We’re working to fix the problem ASAP. • $GOOG
— CNBC Social Team (@CNBCSocial) November 18, 2013
We have reached out to Google and YouTube for comment and will update this post as soon as we hear more.
UPDATE 2:52PM PST: And YouTube is back! That was quick. It is still unclear as to what caused the outage but we will update this post as soon as we find out.