Netflix’s 2.5-Hour Saturday Outage Hits Much of the Globe

USA Today: Netflix went down Saturday afternoon for about 2½ hours, unleashing a flood of tweets and posts as fans found themselves unable to get to their favorite shows. The cause of the outage was not immediately known. Based on the languages in which the tweets anguishing over the Netflix blackout were written, it appeared the service was down across much of the globe, including South America, France, Italy, Portugal and Germany.