YouTube announced that its entire platform was back to fully operational after more than 250,000 users reported errors when trying to access the media site.

The unofficial crowd sourced website Downdetector shows that 350000 users experienced problems accessing YouTube between 8 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. The most frequently reported issue involved users who encountered difficulties with the YouTube application.

YouTube reported that by around 10PM, “the issue has been resolved” to all its platforms.

“The issue with our recommendations system has been resolved and all of our platforms (YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV) are back to normal! We really appreciate you bearing with us while we sorted this out,” a statement on the YouTube help page reads.

YouTube said that only a brief notice had been made available to users on the problem before the resolution. A solution to a “small number of reports that some people are unable to login to YouTube TV” was being looked upon by YouTube.

“This is to the broader issue across YouTube, and we’re also working on a fix here,” YouTube said.

YouTube initially confirmed the outage in a post on X: “If you’re having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you’re not alone.”

The video service homepage produced an error message when an Independent reporter attempted to access it on Tuesday earlier in the day. The video service homepage showed an error message but users could still access and watch individual videos.

“Looks like YouTube isn’t working properly,” Indiana-based journalist Hannah Adamson wrote on X. “I can still access saved and recently viewed videos, but nothing on the home page loads. Seeing a lot of people on X saying YouTube isn’t working for them either.”

The YouTube problems sparked immediate online comedy creation.

ParrotMode a YouTube gaming creator wrote on X that YouTubers were now “writing 45 minute scripts about The Great YouTube Outage of 2026.”