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Cloudflare internet outage downed X, Downdetector and other sites

A photo taken on November 17, 2023 shows the logo of US online social media and social networking service X - formerly Twitter - on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

(NewsNation) — In the latest internet outage, even the site that tracks them wasn’t spared.

Cloudflare, a popular security platform, was down Tuesday morning. It took X, Spotify, League of Legends and even the website Downdetector with it.


The outage began before 7 a.m. EST, and Cloudflare’s support page declared the issue resolved at 9:44 a.m.

It’s been a rough few weeks for the internet. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have also experienced outages and taken popular websites with them.

Since most websites use one of a handful of large companies for servers or security, when one of them goes down it can take swaths of services and platforms with it.