Major mobile payment services PayPal and Venmo, along with video sharing platform YouTube, experienced widespread outages within a 24-hour period.
The PayPal and Venmo outages began around 11 a.m. Thursday, with tens of thousands of reports of global outages on both sites by noon, according to Downdetector.coman online user reporting system.
The problem seemed to be resolved around 3 p.m.
PayPal acquired mobile payments company Venmo in 2013. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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“PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service outage that has since been resolved,” the spokesperson wrote.
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Venmo, one mobile payments company, was acquired by PayPal in 2013.
It is unclear what caused the malfunction.
It’s unclear what led to the PayPal and Venmo outages, but it has now been resolved. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Hours earlier, YouTube confirmed that users were unable to play videos on Wednesday evening, noting that they were “insisted.”
Downdetector reported that more than 800,000 users reported problems on the platform within an hour.
YouTube posted later social media say the problem is solved.
YouTube experienced an outage hours earlier, reportedly affecting more than 800,000 users. (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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“This issue has been resolved: you should now be able to play videos on YouTubeYouTube Music and YouTube TV!” wrote YouTube’s support team in an X-post.
No explanation was given for the malfunction.
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