YouTube Outage Resolved After Global Service Disruption

NEW YORK (Web Desk): YouTube announced late Tuesday that it had resolved a widespread outage affecting hundreds of thousands of users around the world.

Reports from Downdetector indicated over 300,000 users experienced problems accessing the platform, with the highest number of complaints occurring around 0100 GMT. During the peak of the outage, visitors to YouTube’s homepage were met with messages asking them to return later.

By 0400 GMT, YouTube was back online, with AFP journalists confirming normal access to the site. A YouTube help page stated: “The issue with our recommendations system has been resolved, and all of our platforms (YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV) are back to normal!”

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Earlier, the platform had explained that a malfunction in its recommendations system had prevented videos from appearing across multiple surfaces, including the homepage, YouTube app, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids.

Owned by Google, YouTube is the world’s largest video-sharing platform, with more than 2.5 billion active monthly users relying on the service for entertainment, education, and news.