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Widespread Internet Outage Hits Major Websites Due to Cloudflare Issue

Numerous popular websites and applications, including X (formerly Twitter), Gemini, and Perplexity, experienced widespread outages and error messages today due to a technical issue affecting Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider.

Cloudflare confirmed the problem on its status page, stating they were “aware of and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers,” including widespread 500 errors and failures in its dashboard and API. The company later reported “seeing services recover” but warned of potentially higher-than-normal error rates as remediation efforts continue.

The outage impacted access to X, leaving users with blank feeds and “something went wrong” screens. Even Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, reportedly experienced issues itself due to the Cloudflare problem.

While OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT and some of its other platforms are also down, the AI company has not yet confirmed whether the issue is related to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare acts as a crucial intermediary for many websites, providing security and speed optimization. As such, issues with Cloudflare can have a cascading effect, disrupting access to a wide range of unrelated online services.

This incident follows recent outages affecting Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) last month, as well as a Google Cloud outage in June. All had similar ripple effects across the internet, impacting services like Google Meet, Discord, and Spotify. The frequency of these incidents raises concerns about the reliance of the internet on a small number of critical infrastructure providers.

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