Over the past couple of hours, you may have been experiencing issues loading X.com or bugs when it comes to loading videos or replying to X posts. This comes off the back of over 13,500 user outage reports at the peak of a massive problem that took down large chunks of the internet.

But X itself isn't the main culprit here, Cloudflare is, and some of the website and app bugs are still persisting because of it. Let me take you through what happened.

What is Cloudflare?

Let's start from the beginning. Cloudflare is one of the biggest networks on the internet for apps and websites. Think of it like a popular, bustling store with a security guard outside that protects against cyberattacks, a traffic cop that keeps the the roads to this store running smoothly, and a range of pop-up stores cl

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