USATODAY.com - YouTube fixes stuff during outage: "A database glitch plunged popular video-sharing website YouTube into darkness for at least five hours Tuesday, leaving millions of users without service.
Company officials did not return phone calls, offering only a brief statement.
'We are experiencing a temporary site outage due to a database-related issue,' said Julie Supan, YouTube's senior marketing director, in a statement at noon PT. 'Our engineering team expects the site to be up and running in the next few hours.'
Keynote Systems, which tracks Internet performance, began fielding calls from YouTube users at 8 a.m.. By 1 p.m., the site had been restored."
