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

Cloudflare wrongly suspected that the widespread outage that took numerous websites offline on November 18 was caused by a DDoS attack, the company’s CEO has admitted.

"This incident, as with the recent outage at AWS, shows how reliant some very important internet-based services are on a relatively few major players," said Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity a...