X, Cloudflare hit by widespread outage

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and internet security company Cloudflare were hit by a widespread outage on Tuesday, disrupting access for thousands of users across multiple countries, including the United States, India, and Nigeria.

The disruptions on X were first flagged around 4:36 pm IST, according to outage tracker Downdetector.com, with reports rapidly increasing as users struggled to load timelines, send posts, or access core features on the platform.

The outage appeared to affect both the mobile app and the web version, leaving many unable to refresh feeds or log in.

X has not yet issued any statement clarifying the cause of the downtime or the extent of the disruption.

Cloudflare, a key internet infrastructure provider whose services support numerous websites and apps, also reported significant issues.

On Tuesday morning, the company posted on its status page that it was investigating the matter.

The outage raised immediate concerns about the ripple effect on platforms depending on Cloudflare’s network.

We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly,” Cloudflare said in its initial update.

In May, PUNCH Online reported that users of X, formerly known as Twitter, grappled with a widespread outage, leaving both the website and app inaccessible.

The Elon Musk-owned social network experienced issues around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 24.

In October, a widespread internet outage disrupted several major websites, online games, and mobile apps across the world, following a technical failure at Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing arm.

According to reports by BBC and CNN Business, the outage temporarily knocked out hundreds of platforms that rely on AWS, including Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, Disney+, Canva, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, McDonald’s, Hulu, Fortnite, and several global banking services such as Lloyds Bank.

The monitoring website Downdetector, which tracks service disruptions, recorded over four million reports from users worldwide across more than 500 companies, making it one of the largest cloud-related outages in recent years.