YouTube is experiencing a worldwide outage that’s affecting some users, but the company is actively working on a solution.
“If YouTube isn’t loading for you or you’re seeing error messages on the site — we’re on it,” the company’s support account tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “More updates to follow.”
YouTube users and creators from around the world first started tweeting about the site going down around 3:15PM ET. Unlike the last major YouTube outage in October 2018, which affected everyone for a few hours, it seems like this outage is only affecting some users. A test conducted by some reporters at The Verge found the site either loaded regularly or a little slower than usual.
“If YouTube isn’t loading for you or you’re seeing error messages on the site — we’re on it.”
“I was about to upload a video but YouTube is down,” Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, a creator with more than 5 million subscribers, tweeted.
“You know there is something wrong when you suddenly get views on videos titled ‘YouTube Down,’” company VidIQ tweeted.
People who were affected by the outage were greeted by blank screens, lines of code, or empty video boxes when they tried to access YouTube.
The Verge has reached out to YouTube for additional information.