YouTube experienced a major outage, with thousands reporting issues. At its peak, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, according to Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, basing its numbers on user-submitted reports. More than 200,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 4:36 p.m. PT.
YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users Wednesday afternoon. Nearly 300,000 users had reported a problem with YouTube, with over 600,000 users reporting issues in total.
YouTube experienced a widespread outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.
Author's summary: YouTube fixed issue after major outage.