Twitter, Cloudflare and ChatGPT
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A massive Cloudflare outage on November 18th crippled major platforms like OpenAI, X, and Spotify, leaving millions offline. The disruption, stemming from maintenance and rerouting issues across data centers,
X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, has been down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
Cloudflare confirmed the issue is affecting its global network, which is causing outages on X, ChatGPT, Canva, and, ironically, Downdetector.
A lot of popular apps like ChatGPT, Perplexity, X (formerly Twitter) are curently facing outages due to a technical issue on Cloudflare.
Impacted websites included X, formerly Twitter, Axios, Indeed, Canva and Downdetector, a website that tracks web outages.
Internet infrastructure platform Cloudflare was dealing with an outage on Nov. 18, which was causing users issues with apps like Spotify and X.