X, Spotify and ChatGPT among sites down after outage at network firm Cloudflare

A number of the websites affected, including X, came back online temporarily before suffering further problems.

Websites including X and Spotify have been hit by a major outage linked to Cloudflare (Alamy/PA)

Websites including X and Spotify have been hit by a major outage linked to Cloudflare.

Thousands of users reported issues with a host of different websites, including the film review site Letterboxd, which were impacted by technical issues at the internet network services business.