Cloudflare outage breaks internet
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Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Nov. 18, and it took many major platforms down with it. OpenAI, Spotify, X, and Canva were among just some of the websites and services that went down Tuesday morning. Feel like you're experiencing deja vu? Well, you're not.
The internet is down (again). A wide range of websites (including our very own gizmodo.com) were down on Tuesday morning due to an outage involving internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.
Cloudflare says it is investigating an issue that caused outages for social media platform X, some multiplayer games, and ChatGPT.
Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare. Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and film reviewing site Letterboxd saw an error message that indicated that Cloudflare problems meant that the page could not show.
Parts of the internet including X appear to be having problems after Cloudflare appeared to go down. According to Downdetector.co.uk there have been a spike in reports of people struggling to access websites including X (formerly Twitter), League of ...
A network issue at web security business Cloudflare has disrupted internet services and taken down sites such as ChatGPT and X for many users. A Cloudflare spokesperson told Business Insider that the company saw "unusual traffic" to one of its services at 6:20 a.