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Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.
For several hours Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet was unavailable in Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019.
A Cloudflare software failure caused major sites like Spotify, X and ChatGPT to go dark, highlighting the internet’s growing centralization.
On DownDetector, the issues with X are being reported as 58% app problems and 32% web. Users are unable to access their accounts on the app or on desktop. It is now reported that X is beginning to operate as normal with users being able to access their accounts.
Web services provider Cloudflare got hit by an outage on Tuesday, disrupting access to many websites and services including OpenAI, Spotify, X, Grindr, Letterboxd and Canva. Cloudflare is a cloud services and cybersecurity company based in San Francisco that is used by approximately 20% of all websites,
Popular websites and apps like X, Spotify, and OpenAI experienced high rates of outages. Cloudflare announced it had implemented a fix and resolved the issue by mid-morning. Issues at Cloudflare, an internet services company,
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Is X down? Social media users report app issues due to Cloudflare outage
Thousands of social media users have reported issues with X within the last few hours due to a major Cloudflare outage. On Downdetector, there was a peak of nearly 5,000 reports, just before midday. However,