Cloudflare outage takes down Twitter, Spotify and other websites

Websites and apps including X and Spotify have been knocked out by an outage at Cloudflare.

The web infrastructure and security firm said the Cloudflare Global Network was experiencing widespread issues on Tuesday morning.

OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, League of Legends, and Bet365 were among other websites that were down.

The Scottish Parliament website has also been affected.

Cloudflare said it is experiencing an “internal service degradation”, which means a software system or IT service is operating below its normal or expected quality levels due to issues within its own infrastructure.

“Some services may be intermittently impacted,” Cloudflare said.

“We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.”

Problems began to be reported by users on the Downdetector at around 11am.

Just before 12.30pm, the company said some services were beginning to recover, but warned that customers may continue to see “higher than normal error rates”.

As of 12.53pm, Cloudflare said it was “continuing to investigate this issue”.

Less than ten minutes later, an update said: “During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect.”

Internet problems with several major global and social media sites seems to be ongoing.