Cloudflare outage takes down X and ChatGPT
"We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic," it said, adding "we are all hands-on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors."
Cloudflare said in a statement it had seen "a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services beginning at 11:20 UTC" which had caused errors for traffic passing through its network.
Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.
A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, have gone down for some users due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.
On its homepage, X is displaying a message for some users saying there is a problem with its internal server, as a result of an "error" originating with Cloudflare.
ChatGPT's site was also displaying an error message telling some users: "please unblock challenges cloudflare.com to proceed."
Cloudflare said in an earlier note on its service status dashboard that the issues it was experiencing "potentially impacts multiple customers".
In updates since it added it was "seeing services recover" but some customers "may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts".
Cloudflare is a huge provider of internet security across the world, carrying out services such as checking visitor connections to sites are coming from humans rather than bots.
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