Cloudflare outage takes X, ChatGPT and other major sites
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Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.
Cloudflare goes on to state, "We are continuing to work towards restoring other services", and that access has reportedly been restored in London.
Did your internet break this morning? For thousands of Alabamians, the world wide web slammed shut as a massive Cloudflare outage affected websites across the internet, including X, Spotify, Google Store and some Alabama government sites.
Just weeks after Amazon Web Services went down for a day, Cloudflare created a widespread issue on November 18.
There was a spike in users of social media platform X reporting problems on the DownDetector service early on Tuesday morning, as Cloudflare said its global network was experiencing issues. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform was also among the websites affected by the Cloudflare issues.
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Social media site X and music streaming platform Spotify have been impacted by outages, causing chaos for users. X is reportedly down due to a "service outage", according to Down Detector, which is said to be linked to Cloudflare disruption.
Cloudflare said the cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. Spokesperson Jackie Dutton said in a statement that ther