Updated On: 18 February, 2026 02:58 PM IST | Washington | AFP
YouTube said it has resolved a widespread outage that disrupted access for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide late Tuesday. According to Downdetector, more than 300,000 users reported issues at the peak of the disruption around 0100 GMT. During the outage, visitors to YouTube’s homepage were asked to return later as videos failed to load

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YouTube said late Tuesday it had fixed a widespread outage that hit hundreds of thousands of users around the world.
Tracking website Downdetector said there were more than 300,000 reports of problems accessing the video-sharing site, though the reports seemed to be diminishing after a peak at about 0100 GMT.