For several hours Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet was unavailable in Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019.

Web services company Cloudflare said it is aware of problems impacting "multiple customers" amid reports of outages at apps including X.

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

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

Cloudflare was hit by an outage that knocked several major websites and services offline for global users. OpenAI's ChatGPT, e-commerce platform Shopify and Elon Musk's social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues.

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

As soon as social media users were able to get online following the outage, conspiracy theories began to circulate online.

Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network.

The company responded quickly and repeatedly on its digital owned media properties and on social media. Will it be enough to quell discontent over the scale of the outage?