You Tube has been down since yesterday, though Reuters’ report suggests it must have been back up for a while:

Web video sensation YouTube.com, which serves up more than 100 million videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday — its first-ever unplanned outage, a company spokeswoman confirmed.

“We are experiencing a temporary site outage due to a database-related issue,” YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan said in an e-mail to Reuters five hours after the outage began.

“To clarify and ensure accuracy, the site is not down for maintenance,” Supan said in a statement released shortly before the site recovered. “This was an unplanned outage.”

Access to the YouTube site was cut off around 7:30 a.m. PDT (1430 GMT) and was only restored around 1:30 p.m. PDT (2030 GMT), or six hours later, according the spokeswoman.

The breakdown came as Internet audience measurement firm comScore Networks on Tuesday released data showing how YouTube surged into the No. 40 ranking in July among U.S. Web sites, with 16 million visitors, up 20 percent just since June.

I just love it that the fact that I can’t watch old Bon Jovi videos and ferret films online is worthy of a story and a Drudge link. Great times, these are.

Also, no more blogging in bed for me. Yikes.

Go here to see if you’re affected.

Update: YouTube‘s back. In celebration…