Total wipeout: Amazon, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify and HMRC websites go down in huge internet outage

MAJOR website including Amazon, Twitter, Reddit and Spotify have all gone down in a mass internet outage. Problems began around 10:30am BST (5:30am ET) on Tuesday, according to online outage tracker DownDetector.

The disruption hit hundreds of major websites, including Twitch, Pinterest, eBay, PayPal, Depop and the FT.

Visitors to the affected sites took to Twitter to vent their frustration.

One described how "everything just shut out of nowhere", while another branded the outage an "internet apocalypse".

Another tweeted that the internet was "broken".

Source: thesun.co.uk