X is down, along with a chunk of the internet

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A smartphone shows the app icon for X with a black background, while another X logo is seen in the background.

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.”

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.)

A graph showing a spike in Cloudflare and X issues on Downdetector.

A shared issue spike, seen on Downdetector.
Credit: Downdetector / Mashable

At 7:21 AM ET, Cloudflare reported, “We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”

Mashable has reached out to Cloudflare for further information.

This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.

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