Sunday, October 14, 2012

YouTube Broken by Space Jump

Update: It seems that YouTube is getting back on its feet.

YouTube.com has gone down thanks to Felix Baumgartner's historic jump from space.

YouTube hosted Mr. Baumgartner's jump live and was sponsored by Red Bull. At its height, there were more than 7.5 Million people watching the same video at once.

When Mr. Baumgartner was about to touch down after a successful jump, the site began to experience problems. A few minutes after, the entire website was having a server error, leading people to receive this message when they try to go to YouTube:
Members of Twitter quickly took to the site to comment on YouTube's crash.


"Messed up:"
WTF:


We'll have more on this as it develops.

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