YOUTUBE — October 16th — or 17th depending on where you live — a date which will live in infamy, because it's the day YouTube broke worldwide. <br /><br />The YouTube website and app reportedly went down for users around the globe.<br />A whole bunch of errors slammed the service, like 500 internal server errors to "invalid response" errors. <br /><br />Some users reported being hit with a redirect when they tried to access the YouTube homepage. <br />YouTube quickly hopped on Twitter to let everyone know they are working on the problem.<br />Users meanwhile quickly jumped on social media to report the issues, while news outlets worldwide were saved from a slow news day.<br /><br />The sheer amount of YouTube dollars lost by creators worldwide during the outage will most likely run into the tens of dollars internationally.<br />In the end … YouTube technicians were finally able to get the service back online.
