Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare hit by outage

A number of websites, including social media platform X, appear to have been hit by problems affecting internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.

Thousands of users reported issues with X and other services to outage monitoring site Downdetector flagged shortly after 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.

"Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers," the company said in a note on its service status dashboard at 11:48 UTC.

"Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available."

The company said in further updates, shortly after 12:00 GMT, it was continuing to investigate the issue.

It comes weeks after an outage impacting Amazon Web Services knocked more than 1,000 sites and apps offline.