YouTube down again, not working for last 6 hours

Google owned YouTube is apparently down again for unknown reasons. The first report came via e-mail eight hours ago on the outage. It was hard to verify it at that time, but it is sure that the YouTube is not working now.

There are reports of the same nature coming from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and here in Massachusetts. Been going on for at least an hour, it would seem, maybe longer. Some people are having a hard time coping … others are starting to freak.

“Seriously, its starting to scare me,” writes a blogger. “If nothing else I need youtube up tonight to watch Transformers Animated and the next episode of ‘From the Drawer.’ Tin-foil hatters are conjuring up conspiracy theories, of course. Blame Hillary?

Meanwhile, Max, being the savvy Web veteran that most 6-year-olds are these days, is getting his LEGO Star Wars video fix on another site.

The last time YouTube went down wan back in January this year. At that time, YouTube suffered a two-hour long, system-wide outage that the company said was triggered by a network based in Pakistan.

“For about two hours, traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous Internet Protocols,” said YouTube spokesperson Ricardo Reyes in a statement “Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again.”

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