Video streaming platform. Netflix was back up on Saturday
after an outage that lasted roughly six hours in the
United States just as viewers tuned into a highly anticipated
boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul on Netflix
late on Friday. That's according to the outage tracking
website down detector.com which tracks outages by collating status reports
from various sources. More than 90,000 users indicated problems
with the streaming platform at the peak of the outage
. It said the website reported that the outage primarily
impacted users in major metropolitan areas including New York,
Seattle and Los Angeles. Netflix said it had no
immediate comment in response to a request from Reuters.
The platform has faced outages during live or highly anticipated
events in the past spikes in user traffic often being
a contributing factor.