Netflix was down for thousands of users in the U.S. late on Friday, according outage tracking website Downdetector.com.There were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

:Streaming platform Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said, just as viewers tuned into a highly anticipated boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. The number of users indicating problems was 85,021, by 10:35 p.m. ET (0