STORY: Video streaming platform Netflix was back up on Saturday (November 16) after an outage that lasted roughly six hours in the United States...
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... 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 Downdetector.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.