YouTube Goes Down But Server Error Gets Fixed Quickly

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.

"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.

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 Grav…
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