"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.