Last mentioned: Feb 18, 2026
Full Recovery
Official confirmation that services are fully restored across all global platforms.
Service Restoration
YouTube confirms homepage and core services are being restored to normal operation.
Mitigation Begins
Reports drop to 150,000 as engineering teams begin addressing the recommendation system glitch.
Peak Outage
Downdetector records over 338,000 reports; YouTube TV users report login failures.
Initial Disruption
User reports of 'Something went wrong' errors begin to spike globally.
A massive technical failure in YouTube's recommendation algorithm triggered a global outage on Tuesday, affecting over 338,000 users at its peak. The disruption disabled video feeds and homepage content across YouTube and YouTube TV before engineers fully restored services.
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| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Downdetector was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |