YouTube experienced a major outage, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.
At its peak, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, with over 600,000 users affected in total.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted reports.
YouTube has since fixed the issue affecting video streaming services, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon.
YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users Wednesday afternoon.
Author's summary: YouTube fixed outage affecting 600,000 users.