Some notable web services that experienced disruptions included: Spotify, Discord, Google and its related services, Cloudflare, Snapchat, YouTube, OpenAI, Character AI, Fubo, Etsy, Vimeo, UPS, Shopify, Microsoft Azure, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Gemini, DoorDash, Calendly, Paramount+, IKEA, Twitch, and Microsoft 365.

If you're noticing that some websites or services are running slowly (or not at all), you're not alone. There are widespread outages affecting services across the web, including Google, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.

An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. As per DownDetector, many major platforms including YouTube,

The Cloudflare status page says that a "broad" outage is impacting variety of services, which follows the trend of user reports sent to DownDectector. The San Francisco-based company said it was looking into the outage at 1:19 p.m. Central Time with updates stating the investigation into the authentication failures continues.

Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.

Several major cloud service providers and apps, from Cloudflare to Spotify, experienced outages on Thursday at around the same time.