X is down, together with a piece of the web

If you have been attempting to examine X to grasp why massive chunks of the web are down, seems it is impacted too.

The platform previously referred to as Twitter was disrupted on Tuesday morning attributable 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 those platforms is X, with customers reporting points with the social media website concurrently the Cloudflare outage, according to Downdetector. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the identical guardian firm as Mashable.)

In an announcement to Mashable by way of e-mail, Cloudflare stated, “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 publish updates to cloudflarestatus.com and extra in-depth evaluation when it is able to blog.cloudflare.com.”

This is a growing story and shall be up to date as new particulars emerge.