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By Tanveer Ahmed :
Video-sharing platform YouTube said on Tuesday that it had fixed a technical fault that temporarily disrupted access for millions of users worldwide, following widespread complaints of missing or inaccessible content.
According to YouTube, the disruption was caused by a malfunction in its recommendation system, which stopped videos from loading properly across different sections of the platform.
In a statement, the company confirmed that the problem had been resolved and that normal operations had resumed on all services, including YouTube’s main website, mobile app, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids, and smart TV versions.
During the peak of the outage, more than 320,000 users in the United States reported issues, based on data from outage-tracking platform Downdetector. Similar problems were also reported in several other countries, including India, Britain, Australia, and Mexico.
Downdetector collects data through user-submitted reports, meaning the actual number of affected users may have been higher than recorded.
YouTube remains one of the largest digital platforms in the world, reaching over 2.5 billion viewers globally by early 2025, according to data from Statista. The platform’s music and premium subscriptions have also crossed 100 million users.
Parent company Google has previously disclosed that users watch more than one billion hours of YouTube content daily on television screens alone, while over 500 hours of new video content is uploaded every minute.
Technology analysts continue to view Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion as one of the most successful tech deals in history, transforming the platform into a cornerstone of the global digital economy.
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