YouTube was down for thousands of users in US
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.
YouTube users were having trouble accessing the platform due to issues with the platform's recommendations system.
YouTube’s very first video, ‘Me at the zoo,’ is being honored with an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
The outage caused a flood of users to report access problems for YouTube. The video-sharing platform has since traced the issue to its recommendations system.
Tens of thousands of users reported trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night, but the issue has since been fixed, the company said.
YouTube was not fully back online until after 10 p.m. Here's what YouTube said about the problems. "Aaaand we're back!! This issue has been fixed across YouTube. Thanks for all the reports and for bearing with us while we sorted it out,