Major mobile payment services, PayPal and Venmo, along with video-sharing platform YouTube, experienced widespread outages within a 24-hour period.
PayPal and Venmo outages started at about 11 a.m. Thursday, with tens of thousands of reports about worldwide outages on both sites by noon, according to Downdetector.com, an online user reporting system.
As of 3 p.m., the issue seemed to have been resolved.
PayPal acquired mobile payment company Venmo in 2013. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
In a statement, a PayPal spokesperson described the outage as a “brief service disruption.”
“PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service disruption that has since been resolved,” the spokesperson wrote.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
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| PYPL | PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC. | 66.05 | -1.93 | -2.84% |
| GOOGL | ALPHABET INC. | 251.46 | +0.43 | +0.17% |
Venmo, a mobile payments company, was acquired by PayPal in 2013.
It is unclear what led to the outage.
It is unclear what led to the PayPal and Venmo outage, though it is now resolved. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Hours earlier, YouTube confirmed users were unable to play videos Wednesday night, noting they were “on it.”
Downdetector reported more than 800,000 users reported issues on the platform within an hour.
YouTube later posted to social media saying the issue was resolved.
YouTube experienced an outage hours earlier, reportedly affecting more than 800,000 users. (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“This issue has been fixed – you should now be able to play videos on YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV!” YouTube’s support team wrote in an X post.
No explanation was provided for the outage.
YouTube did not immediately respond to request for comment.