YouTube has been struck by an outage worldwide which has left customers unable to look at their favorite movies.

The DownDetector web site, which screens on-line outages, reveals greater than 2,000 concern experiences within the U and over 4,000 within the US alone.

Other nations, equivalent to India, Australia and components of Europe, have additionally been affected, DownDetector reveals.

Forty-nine p.c of the reported issues have been for the web site, with 36 p.c of points affecting the app and 15 p.c video-streaming, as of 10pm on Tuesday (August 22).

DownDetector stated: "User reports indicate possible problems at YouTube".

As of this 12 months, YouTube has over 2.7 billion energetic customers, however the quantity affected by the outage shouldn't be identified.

Users of the platform shared their experiences on DownDetector with person Steve Ennever commenting: "Home page videos will play but if you click on any specific channel you get 'Something Went Wrong' & a 'Try Again' button which does nothing".

Fellow YouTube person Karis merely wrote: "Can't watch anything".

YouTube has not shared particulars of the outage through its account on X, previously Twitter, however a puzzling tweet was posted at 10pm.

The tweet learn: "*pretending to do my celebrity house tour by walking backwards and talking to no one*".

The message left X customers baffled, with one replying to the tweet: "[T]his tweet literally makes no sense".

It appeared some companies on the platform have been again up after 10pm. DownDetector experiences of points peaked at 9.22pm within the UK on 1,539, however by 10.07pm there have been 32 in whole.

A spokeswoman for YouTube's mum or dad firm Google stated: "We are aware of reports that YouTube channel pages aren't loading properly and are working to resolve the issue."

In a put up on the YouTube Help discussion board, a group member of the platform stated customers is perhaps seeing a clean web page or lacking data.

He added: "Rest assured, we’re actively working on it and will update you as soon as we can! Apologies about this & thanks for your patience".