Downdetector, which showed there were more than 15,000
incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube, tracks outages by collating
status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its
platform.
"If you were having a slower than normal experience or
were having trouble accessing YouTube earlier today – this has been fixed! The
issue ran for about 20 mins," YouTube tweeted.
A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services for several
hours last week that resulted in Netflix, Disney+, Robinhood and a slew of
other services being inaccessible, including Amazon's e-commerce website.
YouTube experienced 65 outages over the past 12 months,
according to web tool reviewing website ToolTester..