YouTube Outage Affects Over 600,000 Users
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.
YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users Wednesday afternoon.
According to Downdetector, nearly 300,000 users had reported a problem with YouTube, with the total number of affected users exceeding 600,000.
Author's summary: YouTube outage affects 600,000 users.