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

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.

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

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.

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

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