The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.

Feb 17 (Reuters) - YouTube said on Tuesday it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions.

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.

More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!

YouTube users were having trouble accessing the platform due to issues with the platform's recommendations system.

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YouTube experienced a widespread disruption Tuesday night that temporarily prevented users from accessing videos across its platform. The Google-owned service later confirmed the cause of the issue and began restoring functionality after reports surged globally.

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