Tens of thousands of Netflix users reported that the service was not working for them ahead of a fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul on Friday, with many saying that the livestream was failing to load.
The keyword #NetflixCrash was trending on the social media platform X in the United States on Friday night as Downdetector, which tracks user reports of internet disruptions, received more than 500,000 reports that people were having problems streaming on Netflix.
Netflix declined to comment.
Many of the complaints about a Netflix outage on social media were centered on the eight-round heavyweight boxing match between Mr. Tyson, a former heavyweight world champion, and Mr. Paul, a YouTuber. The livestream for that fight began at 10 p.m. Eastern time, before the fight started.
Frustrated viewers posted videos showing the frozen stream on their monitors.
“I’m in the classic torture chamber,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of the Barstool Sports media network and a social media personalty, said on X, “where I can’t tell if my internet keeps going out or whether #Netflix is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody.”
The outage reports on Downdetector, which started to jump around when the livestream began for the Paul-Tyson fight, came from across the United States, according to a map provided by the tracking service.
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