WASHINGTON — Parts of the internet, including X and League of Legends, appeared to simply stop working Tuesday morning because of a technical problem with Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that underpins much of the internet, including tools to protect websites from cyberattacks and to keep them operating under heavy traffic.

According to DownDetector.com , which tracks internet outages, the problems began around 6 a.m. Eastern. X (formerly Twitter), Letterboxd, League of Legends and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI all saw a spike in errors over the next hour.

Around 6:45 a.m. Eastern, Cloudflare posted a message indicating it was looking into the issue.

"Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread

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