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Selection subject mobile payment servicePayPal and Venmo, along with video-sharing platform YouTube, experienced widespread outages within 24 hours.
The PayPal and Venmo outages began around 11 a.m. Thursday, and by noon both sites had received tens of thousands of reports of global outages, the company said. downdetector.coman online user reporting system.
As of 3pm, the issue appears to be resolved.
PayPal acquired mobile payments company Venmo in 2013. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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In a statement to FOX Business, a PayPal spokesperson described the outage as a “short-term service interruption.”
“PayPal and Venmo experienced brief service interruptions, which have now been resolved,” a spokesperson wrote.
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
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| PYPL | PayPal Holdings, Inc. | 66.05 | -1.93 |
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| Alphabet Co., Ltd. | 251.46 | +0.43 |
+0.17% |
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Venmo, mobile payment The company was acquired by PayPal in 2013.
The cause of the power outage is unknown.
The cause of the PayPal and Venmo outages is unknown, but has now been resolved. (Rafael Enrique/SOPA Image/LightRocket, Getty Images)
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Hours earlier, YouTube confirmed that users were unable to access it. play video On Wednesday night, they said they were “working on it.”
Downdetector reported that over 800,000 users reported issues on the platform within an hour.
It was then posted on YouTube social media It seems that the problem has been resolved.
YouTube experienced an outage several hours ago, reportedly affecting more than 800,000 users. (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)
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“This issue has been fixed. You can now play the video.” on YouTubeYouTube Music, and YouTube TV!,” YouTube’s support team wrote in the X post.
There was no explanation given for the power outage.
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YouTube did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
