On Tuesday, global video streaming platform YouTube experienced an outage, as reported by outage tracking website Downdetector. The website stated that thousands of users around the world faced difficulties streaming content on YouTube.
Netizens also took to Twitter to complain that the platform was not loading. According to Downdetector, the outage reported a spike at around 5.30 am on Tuesday.
The reason for the outage is not yet known and YouTube is yet to issue a statement on the same. However, responding to a user’s escalation of the matter on Twitter, the account – TeamYoutube – replied, “tysm for letting us know! we’re looking into this rn.”
“User reports indicate Youtube is having problems since 9:17 PM EDT.httpRT if you’re also having problems#Youtubedown,” the official Twitter handle of the outage monitoring website tweeted.
As per Downdetector, the majority of the issues were reported with video streaming (51 per cent), while 31 per cent of users had trouble accessing the app. 17 per cent of people alerted issues on the website version of YouTube.
