Cloudflare Outage Knocks X And ChatGPT Offline

Cloudflare, a significant internet infrastructure provider, experienced an outage on Tuesday morning, causing numerous major websites to become inaccessible.

Users attempting to access sites such as X (formerly Twitter) were met with an error message from Cloudflare, indicating a system malfunction.

Cloudflare operates one of the world's largest networks, offering services that enable millions of internet properties to maintain faster and more secure online presences.

The company's primary role involves acting as an intermediary to ensure websites remain online and can manage high volumes of traffic, including protection against attacks.

This incident underscores how issues with critical infrastructure providers, similar to a previous Amazon Web Services outage, can swiftly impact a wide array of seemingly unconnected websites.