Thousands of users in the United States, some parts of Europe and South America on the X (formerly twitter) platform have reported being unable to access the site due to Cloudflare outage.

According to website Downdetector which collates user reports and tracks outages with it, there were more than 5,600 reports of issues with the social media platform. 

The website also reports that users indicate problems with X accounts in varying degrees, ranging from inability to access site, inability to post or receive messages and accessing the X app and website. 

Although the bulk of complaints come in from America, downdetector also shows that users in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Colombia also have trouble accessing the X app. 

Users are also currently unable to visit sites such as ChatGPT, Canva and other lesser known websites with some pages displaying "internal server error codes". 

 

What is cloudflare? 

Cloudflare is an IT service management company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic.

The content delivery Networks typically routes url requests from users to their desired servers, an action which it is currently unable to process. 

The company is yet to release a statement regarding Tuesday's near global network failure and its cause. 

Elon Musk's X appears to be the worst hit causing the website's estimated 600 million active users from accessing it.

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