X is down, along with a chunk of the internet
If you've been trying to check X to understand why large chunks of the internet are down, turns out it's impacted too.
The platform formerly known as Twitter was disrupted on Tuesday morning due to a large-scale Cloudflare outage. At 6:48 AM ET, Cloudflare reported it was "investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers" with "widespread 500 errors." At 7:21 AM ET, Cloudflare reported "seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts."
One of these platforms is X, with users reporting issues with the social media site at the same time as the Cloudflare outage, according to Downdetector. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.)
In a statement to Mashable via email, Cloudflare said, "We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. 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.
"We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com."
This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.