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update:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog...be_down_1.html

A few friends have alerted me to a possible outage at YouTube. I certainly can't get on to the service.


According to some, YouTube has been down for more than an hour....

I'll be keeping an eye on it from my Twitter account. Follow me here.

I've been using Tweetscan to look for people's comments about YouTube on Twitter. A very cool web app. Look here.

Lots of people on Twitter are linking Pakistan's decision to block YouTube with the current - seemingly global - outage. I'd be surprised if there was a link as the net doesn't work that way...

UPDATE: I've contacted a Google PR in London who says the service is working for him but is checking on the issue. There are mixed reports - some are saying it is back, others not.

UPDATE TWO: David Ulevitch of OpenDNS believes that "Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space".