Oct 15 (Reuters) - Alphabet-owned YouTube was

down for over 320,000 users in the United States on Wednesday

evening, according to Downdetector.

As of 7:47 p.m. ET, 321,990 users reported issues with

YouTube, per Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating

status reports from a number of sources.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.

The actual number of affected users may vary.

Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for

comment.