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Several major websites, including X and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were inaccessible to users early on Tuesday as web traffic management giant Cloudflare reported a disruption in its services worldwide.
An outage in Cloudflare’s services knocked X, ChatGPT and other websites offline on Tuesday morning.
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On its live status page, Cloudflare said it is “experiencing an internal service degradation,” which could cause some of its services to be “intermittently impacted.”
In a following update, Cloudflare said it was seeing services recover, but “customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts,” adding that it was “continuing to investigate this issue.”
Crowdsourced data on Downdetector.com showed that the streamer Spotify and popular fan fiction website “Archive of Our Own” were also impacted by the outage.
Several major websites use Cloudflare to manage internet traffic and prevent targeted cyberattacks.
This is a developing story.