Website: YouTube outage affecting more than 240,000 users in America

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- Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube platform was down for more than 240,000 U.S. users on Tuesday, DownDetector.com reported.

The website, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from a number of sources, noted that it had recorded 240,707 reports of problems with the platform as of 7:59 p.m. Eastern Time.