Servers at YouTube failed Thursday afternoon, making the website and its videos across the web temporarily unavailable. The downtime sent people into a panic between 4 p.m. ET and 4:30 p.m. ET. The site is now back up, but "YouTube Goes Down" is still a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.
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"A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation," said the error message.
The "500 Internal Server Error" came after a filing error leaked Google's earnings four hours too early.
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YouTube is down. Does this mean worker productivity is up?
— Digg (@digg) October 18, 2012
YouTube is down. This is it, my friends. The end of the world.
— Claw'b GraveRobber (@RobDenBleyker) October 18, 2012
youtube is down. i think its a good reason to jump in a ditch. #whyyoutubewhy
— Madison Beer (@MadisonElleBeer) October 18, 2012
YOUTUBE IS DOWN?!?! THIS IS WHY ONLINE MEDIA WILL NEVER TAKE OVER TELE...*your skybox is not responding*
— Stephen Byrne (@3sixty5days) October 18, 2012
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