X and other internet services down after Cloudflare outage

Many social media users reported Tuesday morning that X was not working, which is likely due to an issue with Cloudflare, one of the largest networks on the Internet.

Thousands of X users were affected as the site, owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, would not load, Reuters reported. There were 12,075 reports of issues with X as of 8:37 a.m. ET, according to outage tracker Downdetector .

Other websites that may have also been affected by the outage include OpenAI, Spotify and dating app Grindr, as shown on Downdetector. Associated Press reported that there were also issues with Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and online game League of Legends.

Cloudflare posted online  just before 7 a.m. ET, saying it was “experiencing an internal service degradation.”

“Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service,” it said.

It also said that customers may continue to see “higher-than-normal error rates” as it continues its “remediation efforts.”

This issue was identified just after 8 a.m. ET and “a fix is being implemented.”

A Cloudflare spokesperson told Business Insider they noticed “unusual traffic” online for one of their services around 6:20 a.m. ET. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic,” the spokesperson said.

Cloudflare is used by millions of websites around the world to “protect websites against hackers and fake traffic, and to make web pages faster,” per Business Insider.

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