It seems that YouTube is having a bit of a hiccup today with some users being left unable to access the site or videos via the YouTube.com homepage.

How widespread the problem spreads is yet to be established, but there are certainly plenty of Tweets from disgruntled users. In our own testing, it seems to be a mixed bag with some of the team able to access the site and others not. For some users the site loads correctly, but an error (shown right) occurs whenever a search is carried out. Services like DownDetector are also reporting problems from users.