Short-lived glitches plague YouTube

YouTube was having problems Thursday afternoon, either not loading at all or loading extremely sluggishly.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

It appeared that YouTube was having problems Thursday afternoon, with the site either not loading and producing an error message that said "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable," or loading extremely slow.

The problem seemed to have resolved itself after a few minutes, but for those of us intent on looking at videos of talking cats--I admit it--it was seriously inconvenient.

A few minutes later, YouTube itself updated the site with a message that said, "We are currently performing site maintenance. Be cool - we'll be back 100% in a bit."

A request for comment from YouTube was not immediately returned.

[mattumanu]

Your precious youtube was down?

For a few seconds? Oh the humanity!!!!!!<br /><br />Let us turn you fail into win: "Youtube was down today, but I went outside and got some fresh air and smelled a flower till it got better".<br /><br />Fix'd

[Anthony_NextLevel]

thats nothiny... how about that myspace always down.

I can't go on myspace without a major glitch... Youtube should be happy it was a minute. it takes 5 minutes and 3 refreshes to see my homepage on myspace.

[SJ2571]

Why is this news?

Seriously? Who gives a damn? What's the big deal? Holy crap. Get a life, cnet.

[yomjoseki]

RE: Why is this news?

That's exactly what I was thinking! I don't know how this creeped into my GMail RSS feeds but this was the worst waste of 60 seconds I've ever spent on the net.

[QuinzePrime]

YouTube is once again, unavailable 12/08/07

It happened again tonight, 11:00 EST. Very weird...