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YouTube Suffers Major Outage: Users Report Streaming Issues
28 Oct
Summary
- YouTube experienced a significant outage affecting thousands of users globally.
- Most reported issues involved problems with the video streaming service.
- User outage reports rapidly increased, exceeding 58,000 at its peak.

On Wednesday, YouTube experienced a significant disruption, with thousands of users worldwide reporting issues with the platform. The outages were primarily related to the video streaming service, leaving many unable to access content.
According to Downdetector.com, initial reports of problems began early in the morning, with over 5,100 issues logged by 7:30 a.m. PT. The number of affected users rapidly increased throughout the morning.
By 7:47 a.m. PT, more than 33,000 users had reported problems, and this figure climbed further to over 58,000 by 7:57 a.m. PT, indicating a widespread and escalating failure of the popular video platform.