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.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that powers many popular websites, including Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and more. Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the next several hours.

A company that, by some estimates, channels 20 per cent of the world’s internet traffic suffered a massive meltdown on Tuesday, US time, taking down major sites including X, Spotify and even Donald Trump’s Truth Social network.

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,

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,