YouTube, the outage
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
In what’s a rare occurrence, it seems the YouTube platform is down this February 17, and it’s affecting both the browser and app versions based on our testing. Players will see issues loading new videos or even the app itself for now, with a ton of reports surfacing now.
YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,
For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."
More than 338,000 users reported issues with YouTube Tuesday evening, Feb. 17, according to Downdetector.As of 6:30 p.m., 338,308 people had flagged problems with the video platform, Downdetector data shows.
Google-owned YouTube said some users were having trouble accessing the online video-sharing platform. YouTube said that an issue with its recommendations system prevented videos from appearing on YouTube,