Xis not loading properly for some users (Picture: Getty Images)

Multiple social media websites are down for thousands of users, including Facebook and X, as well as music streaming app Spotify .

Several of the platforms have their servers hosted on Cloudflare, which provides tools that protect websites from cyberattacks and allow sites to load content more quickly.

It also acts as a domain name server – a directory for websites and a tool tied to mass outages in recent months .

Accessing some websites now sees users greeted by a

At least 6,500 users have been impacted so far, according to outage tracker Downdetector .

Cloudflare says on its status page that engineers are investigating the issue ‘which potentially impacts multiple customers’.

‘Further detail will be provid

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