Several sites failed to load across the internet on Tuesday due to a technical problem at Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure which provides content delivery network services, cybersecurity, and wide area network services.

Cloudflare is one of the biggest networks on the Internet, used for web application security and performance. They provide tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic.

Thousands of users went into panic mode on Tuesday after several websites, including the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, failed to load. Other major platforms including, Canva, OpenAI and Spotify, too seem to have been hit. Users in the UAE faced issues in accessing several websites, leading to disruptions across workplaces.

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"Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customer. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available," the company said in a note on its service status dashboard, BBC reported.

There were more than 5,600 reports of issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, Reuters reported.

Later, Downdetector itself became inaccessible for some users.

This comes a month after Amazon cloud service outage caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

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