(Nextar) – YouTube announced Wednesday night that it has fixed an issue that has caused hundreds of thousands of U.S. And evening playback problems for international users.
“And we’re back – we’re so sorry for the inconvenience. All of these devices and YouTube services have been updated, thank you for your patience with us, ”Team YouTube tweeted at 9:13 p.m.
YouTube did not specify the cause of the outage. About two hours ago, the company tweeted:
“If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of this issue and is working on improvements.”
According to Down detector, A site that monitors outline outage reports, it seems the problems started at 6:45 p.m. The issue affected YouTube music, YouTube TV and YouTube.
As of 7:30 p.m., there were more than 280,000 reports of problems affecting YouTube, according to Down Detector.
The outage map showed a large number of complaints from the northeastern U.S., as well as parts of Florida, the South, and California. Reports from outside the United States came from Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Western Europe, and Japan.
This is a developing story.
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