A widespread internet disruption is affecting popular platforms like X and ChatGPT due to issues with Cloudflare, a major content delivery network pro

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.

The answer is: Nope, it's not just you. Down Detector noted a bunch of problems that users were having on Tuesday morning. As of publishing, the X Developer Platform showed no issues, but Cloudflare did note an issue.

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.