YouTube is hit with service outages

Yes. In fact, a lot of people are having this problem:

https://twitter.com/vertsuuu/status/303787977358852097

youtube is broken 🙁

— ✗..♥ (@70sLuvStory) February 18, 2013

youtube is not working NOOO

— jenna (@TOMLINSONSWEG) February 19, 2013

#Youtube is broken!

— Ben ??? (@bkellers) February 19, 2013

https://twitter.com/Hazza1979/status/303786275788423168

https://twitter.com/dissimu1ation/status/303787766154670080

And my youtube is not working so I can't post my Stiles' video, I am sick, and tired. Life's not good 🙁

— dylan sexy o'brien (@ohsexydylan) February 18, 2013

aaaahhhhh youtube is broken :')

— new acc-@goldilloh (@GoldyGoldi) February 19, 2013

https://twitter.com/ThatMondayChick/status/302272211815890944

Web monitoring service Downrightnow.com reports “possible service trouble.”

A silver lining?

#youtube is not working – worldwide productivity is up 36.8%

— Craig Wright (@CraigWright1982) February 19, 2013

It’s a small inconvenience for YouTube viewers, but for content producers (some of whom use YouTube to earn a living), these outages are no laughing matter.

We hope this is fixed soon.