YouTube experiences a major outage lasting for more than an hour

No, it's not just you. As of Tuesday evening Pacific Time, YouTube was down for many users. The outage appears to have begun some time around 6:15 p.m., making this a pretty long outage for such a major site.

Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.

- Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018

The company is well aware of the issue and tweeting its updates. The account began responding to tweets reporting the outage about an hour ago and has painstakingly replied to many, many reports from users since.

YouTube doesn't experience downtime very often, making Tuesday's outage pretty notable. We've reached out to YouTube about the cause of the outage and will update this story when we learn more.

Update 8 p.m. Pacific: Google confirms that YouTube is back online and should be working again for all users.

We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6

- Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018