Netflix, the popular streaming giant, experienced a significant outage impacting thousands of users in the US and India, ahead of Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul boxing match. Downdetector.com, a website that tracks service disruptions, recorded over 80,000 reports of Netflix being unavailable in the US. The issue seems to have been resolved with #Netflixcrash hashtag trending on social media platform X.
The outage appeared widespread, with users from various regions of the countries reporting difficulties accessing the streaming service. The nature of the outage remains unclear, and Netflix has yet to release an official statement addressing the issue.
As per Downdetector.com, there were 80,420 reports of the outage at peak, with the number gradually coming down to around 9,000 at the time of writing. About 86% people experienced problems with the video streaming, 10% faced issues with server connection and 4% faced login problems.
In India, the problems peaked at 9.30 with over 1,295 reports complaining of issues regarding video streaming (84%), app (10%) and website (8%). Some memebers of the Times of India team are also expereinced problems with the live streaming.
Jake Paul defeated Mike Tyson 79-73 via unanimous decision!
Users take to social media
Frustrated users have taken to social media to express their concerns and seek updates on the situation. Many reported error messages and an inability to stream content. #Netflixfight, #Netflixcrash, and #CancelNetflix were among a bunch of hashtags that trended on social media platform X.
If Netflix doesn’t fix this buffering issue, this will go down as one of the biggest fails in all of tv/streaming history 🤦♀️ #PaulTyson
TV kept buffering so I tried my iPad 😐 Yes, I have reset my router 🤬 #PaulTyson
Uh oh @netflix. Live streaming keeps freezing up. Someone’s going to get fired for not being prepared for the traffic overload. Better get it fixed before the real fight starts. Could be bad. #TysonPaul #netflixdown
Is Netflix down for everybody???? Literally my stuff will not load
Well folks @netflix just crashed and won’t come back. What an embarrassment. Perfect example of DEI crap
