BREAKING NEWS

YouTube outage affects 286,000 users, says error on platform is fixed

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.
The company has since announced that its interruption is fixed across all devices & YouTube services.

"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.

The issue started about 06:53 p.m. ET (23:53 GMT), 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.