This photo illustration taken on March 23, 2018 shows YouTube logos on a computer screen in Beijing. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service.

DownDetector.com, a website that monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube's  video-streaming service

DownDetector.com, a website that monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the service.

The issue started at around 6:53 pm ET (23:53 GMT), according to Downdetector.com, with users complaining about trouble in watching videos on the platform.

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"We're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services," YouTube said in a tweet, without explaining what had caused the outage.

Google did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage.

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