New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Pokemon GO reportedly experienced an outage on Friday (local time), with thousands of users reporting issues. According to Downdetector.com, over 20,000 people reported problems with the platform at around 3:27 pm PT ( 3:57 am IST the next day).

Downdetector is a website that tracks service outages and disruptions for popular websites, apps, telecom networks, and online services by collecting status reports from several sources.

Most users who reported problems to Downdetector said they were experiencing issues launching the game. At 3:53 p.m. PT, 40,000 users reported an issue, while at 4:13 p.m. PT, more than 53,000 users were experiencing problems with the game.

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