YouTube was down for thousands of users in US
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, suffered an outage Tuesday night. When trying to access the platform via desktop and mobile, videos wouldn’t appear to load and users were met with the message, “Something went wrong. Try again.” The platform went down at around 5 p.m. PT, but as of 6:05 p.m. PT, it appeared to be partially restored.
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YouTube users were having trouble accessing the platform due to issues with the platform's recommendations system.
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The outage caused a flood of users to report access problems for YouTube. The video-sharing platform has since traced the issue to its recommendations system.
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Google-owned YouTube said services have been restored after some users experienced difficulty accessing its sites. YouTube said in an update on X that the issue affecting access to the online video-sharing platform has been fixed.