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.

An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. This is a developing story.

The Spotify outage has lasted about 3 hours but has been in steady decline over on Down Detector for the last hour. Currently, the reportage graph sits at just under 2500 reports. Over on the " Ongoing Issues " page it lists the problems as "Under Investigation."

Thousands of users reported issues or outages with products or services at Google, Spotify, Etsy, Snapchat, UPS and more, according to Downdetector, a platform that tracks digital outages.