YouTube experienced a major outage, with thousands reporting issues. At its peak, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues, according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted reports. The outage was widespread, with over 200,000 users reporting problems as of 4:36 p.m. PT.
YouTube has since fixed the issue affecting video streaming services, which was reported by nearly 300,000 users. The total number of users who reported a problem with the platform exceeded 600,000.
YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users.
Author's summary: YouTube fixes outage issue.