YouTube experienced technical difficulties on Wednesday, Oct. 15, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting problems.

According to the outage-tracking website Downdetector, reports at around 7:59 p.m. ET were around 358,000 and rising. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Downdetector said users began reporting problems with YouTube at 7:19 p.m. ET.

YouTube confirmed the outage on X and said they were working on a fix.

"If you’re not able to play videos on YouTube right now – we’re on it!," YouTube said.

This is a developing story.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is YouTube down? More than 300K users report issues with popular video platform.

Reporting by Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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