Parts of the internet were knocked offline Tuesday after a major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to platforms including X and Letterboxd.

An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.

As services like X and ChatGPT experienced disruptions, attention turned to Cloudflare, the $70 billion company that helps route network traffic behind the scenes.

If you've tried logging into social media or want to write a quick review of the movie you've just watched, there's a good chance you've run into an error message. That's because internet cybersecurity and network company Cloudflare has gone down.

Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare. Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and film reviewing site Letterboxd saw an error message that indicated that Cloudflare problems meant that the page could not show.

Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing."

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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,