Management hopes that will extend to its shares, WaPo: Barr 'unmasking' investigation finds no wrongdoing, Twitter suspends fake accounts pretending to be Black Trump supporters, Harris goes after Trump's lack of transparency on taxes during VP debate, Why the Postal Service has been losing money for years, We asked Trump supporters to show us their Facebook feeds. A Division of NBCUniversal. Twitter's website was down Thursday afternoon, with users who tried to visit the service greeted by an error message. All rights reserved. Moderator. Copyright © 2020 by WTOP. Comcast is a majority shareholder of NBC Universal. Services like Cloudflare are designed to prevent distributed denial of service attacks, in which massive networks of computers send malicious traffic to websites to take them offline. The company's mobile app also appeared to not be functioning properly. Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. We want to hear from you. Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Major internet outage ruins Chess Olympiad world contest, resulting in draw LINE FAIL BT internet outage in Scotland leaves 100,000 customers unable to use the web. 5% of global internet traffic on Sunday. “Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted multiple providers,” said John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare CTO. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. "The recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems," the company tweeted. DownDetector, which displays reports of internet and service outages, showed that reports of internet connectivity came in across the United States and Europe Sunday morning. Bans - Major Internet Outages 8/30/2020 6am EST Thread starter Sic; Start date Aug 30, 2020; Sic Nihil. 30pm today (July 23, 2020), the following providers are reporting problems across various parts of the UK - according to Downdetector. "Cloudflare's automated systems detected the problem and routed around them, but the extent of the problem required manual intervention as well.". Morningstar: Copyright 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. When Cloudflare went down, it took dozens of website sand online services along with it. "Twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours. Broadway worker: My career of 15 years vanished overnight, Watch Steph Curry give Bill Gates a job interview, This company is giving away bacon-scented face masks, Another 898,000 filed for unemployment benefits, See Pete Buttigieg's viral Fox News moments, Florida Latinos targeted by misinformation and conspiracy theories, BTS has the golden touch. Victims included Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. A note on the company's status website showed that Twitter was investigating an irregularity with its application programming interface, or API. Comcast is calling it … A note on the company's status website showed that Twitter was investigating an irregularity with its application programming interface, or API. This content was republished with permission from CNN. Cloudflare, a internet service that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself Sunday, taking dozens of websites and online services along with it.