Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage. A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.

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,

SAN FRANCISCO — From Google, Character.ai and Amazon to Discord, Spotify and Etsy, multiple websites were experiencing some variation of outages on Thursday. Thousands of reports were filed for the respective sites at DownDetector, flagging the outages as they happened.