Google’s popular video streaming service YouTube experienced widespread technical problems on Tuesday evening, leaving hundreds of thousands of users across the nation unable to access the platform.
Outage monitoring service Downdetector recorded a total of 321,958 user complaints about YouTube service disruptions as of 8:18 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday. The tracking website compiles outage information by gathering status reports from various sources.
The technical difficulties also extended to related Google services, with YouTube TV receiving 8,923 user reports of problems, while the main Google platform saw 2,694 issue reports during the same timeframe.
When contacted for information about the service disruption, Google representatives had not provided a response regarding the widespread outages affecting their video platform.
