Internet services disrupted as Cloudflare says its global network is facing issues – Tech

Disruptions in internet access were widely reported on Tuesday as Cloudflare — a DNS service —reported it was experiencing issues in its global network.

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available,” the service provider said.

It said its support portal provider was currently experiencing issues and customers might encounter errors viewing or responding to support cases.

“We are working alongside our third party provider to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly,” Cloudflare said.

Social media platform X was also down for thousands of users in the United States and worldwide, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform as of 6:41am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

It was not immediately clear whether the outages were related.

X and Cloudflare did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

NetBlocks, a global internet watchdog, also said that a wide range of online services were currently experiencing disruptions due to a technical issue affecting Cloudflare’s global network. It added that the incident was not related to “country-level internet disruptions or filtering”.

More to follow.