YouTube outage affects 286k users, says fixing error on platform
YouTube signage is seen at their offices in King's Cross, London, Britain, Sept 11, 2020.
PHOTO: Reuters
PUBLISHED ONNovember 12, 2020 1:47 AM
YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, said late on Wednesday it was fixing an error, which outage monitoring website Downdetector.com said affected about 286,000 users.
"Our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We'll follow up here with any updates," YouTube said in a tweet here.
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The issue started about 6.53pm ET (7:53am SGT), according to Downdetector.com, with users complaining about trouble in watching videos on the platform.
Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment about how many users were affected by the outage on the video-streaming platform.