A major internet disruption hit millions of users worldwide on Tuesday, as a widespread outage at Cloudflare, a leading internet infrastructure provider, knocked popular sites including X (formerly Twitter) and ChatGPT offline.
Visitors attempting to access these platforms encountered error messages such as “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network,” highlighting the company’s critical role in managing online traffic and cyber protection.
Cloudflare acknowledged the incident in a statement:
“Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.
Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”
The outage was first detected early Tuesday morning, with tracking site Down Detector reporting a sharp spike in complaints, confirming the broad scale of the disruption.
Users worldwide were unable to reach services relying on Cloudflare’s technology, underscoring the internet’s heavy reliance on a few key infrastructure providers.
Affected users were advised to refresh their browsers and wait as Cloudflare works to resolve the problem.
