YouTube is the largest streaming service by far in the U.S. At this time, the cause of the outage is unknown. Mashable reached out to Google for more information (YouTube is owned by Google), and we'll update this story if we receive more information.

YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday evening in the United States and internationally, with users reporting blank homepages and error messages across YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids and YouTube TV, before the company said it had implemented a fix.

YouTube says issue ‘resolved’ after more than a quarter million users report problems accessing website and app - As of Tuesday evening, there had been more than a quarter million reports of YouTube issues,

YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,

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

YouTube went down on Tuesday night, with more than 300,000 users experiencing technical difficulties, according to DownDetector. Problems for the digital video platform began around 5 p.m. PT, and some users saw services partially restored as early as about 6:00 p.

An issue that caused tens of thousands of users to report trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night has been resolved. Related video above: That Verizon $20 credit text is real, here's how to claim it According to Downdetector,

For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."

Google-owned YouTube said some users were having trouble accessing the online video-sharing platform. YouTube said that an issue with its recommendations system prevented videos from appearing on YouTube,