OpenAI’s 400 million ChatGPT users experienced “elevated error rates” worldwide on Tuesday as consumers reported thousands of technical issues, according to data from DownDetector.com, a website that tracks online service outages.

Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.

If you're noticing that some websites or services are running slowly (or not at all), you're not alone. There are widespread outages affecting services across the web, including Google, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.

Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.

At just after 2:15 p.m. ET, we saw huge spikes in Down Detector reports for Spotify, and it's been having issues ever since, with reports continuing to pour in long after the initial outage. Since then, it's been a steady decline though its taken longer ...

Down Detector showed a spike of user-reported issues for the popular IT tool, but it was far from alone. User-reported issues for major sites and services flooded in. Sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Nintendo, Character.ai, and more all saw spikes on Down Detector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)

Numerous websites and online services, including Google services, Spotify, DoorDash, and more, are reportedly encountering outages Thursday afternoon amid what appears to be a widespread outage. Outage tracker Downdetector shows dozens of sites and services are seeing increased rates of user-reported issues starting shortly after 2 p.