YouTube has been struck by an outage worldwide which has left users unable to watch their favourite videos.
The DownDetector website, which monitors online outages, shows more than 2,000 issue reports in the U and over 4,000 in the US alone.
Other countries, such as India, Australia and parts of Europe, have also been affected, DownDetector shows.
Forty-nine percent of the reported problems were for the website, with 36 percent of issues affecting the app and 15 percent video-streaming, as of 10pm on Tuesday (August 22).
DownDetector said: “User reports indicate possible problems at YouTube”.
As of this year, YouTube has over 2.7 billion active users, but the number affected by the outage is not known.
Users of the platform shared their experiences on DownDetector with user Steve Ennever commenting: “Home page videos will play but if you click on any specific channel you get ‘Something Went Wrong’ & a ‘Try Again’ button which does nothing”.
Fellow YouTube user Karis simply wrote: “Can’t watch anything”.
YouTube has not shared details of the outage via its account on X, formerly Twitter, but a puzzling tweet was posted at 10pm.
The tweet read: “*pretending to do my celebrity house tour by walking backwards and talking to no one*”.
The message left X users baffled, with one replying to the tweet: “[T]his tweet literally makes no sense”.
It appeared some services on the platform were back up after 10pm. DownDetector reports of issues peaked at 9.22pm in the UK on 1,539, but by 10.07pm there were 32 in total.
A spokeswoman for YouTube’s parent company Google said: “We are aware of reports that YouTube channel pages aren’t loading properly and are working to resolve the issue.”
In a post on the YouTube Help forum, a team member of the platform said users might be seeing a blank page or missing information.
He added: “Rest assured, we’re actively working on it and will update you as soon as we can! Apologies about this & thanks for your patience”.
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