Netflix appears to be suffering an outage across the United States today. As first pointed out by Variety, users have taken to Twitter to complain that they’re unable to access the streaming service this afternoon.
Update: Resolved, below is a statement from a Netflix spokesperson:
DownDetector indicates that user complaints regarding Netflix’s unavailability spiked shortly after 12:30 p.m. ET. Users on Twitter say that they are seeing various error messages when trying to access Netflix, including one that reads “Error NSES-500.” This error typically “points to a network connectivity issue that is preventing your device from reaching the Netflix,” the company says.
Netflix has acknowledged the problems many users are facing on Twitter. “We are currently looking into this situation and working towards a fix,” the company wrote in response to a customer complaint.
Are you having problems accessing Netflix today? If so, let us know down in the comments!
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