YouTube stops working overnight

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YouTube was down for almost two hours overnight, but fear not it's back up and running.

Users from all around the world could not use the site from around 2:30am on Wednesday morning.

Some people trying to access the YouTube homepage received an error message while others could see a homepage but without any videos.

The outages affected YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music.

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The video website finally posted a message on social media to tell everyone that the issues had been fixed, they said: "We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know."