A widespread internet disruption is affecting popular platforms like X and ChatGPT due to issues with Cloudflare, a major content delivery network pro

Just weeks after Amazon Web Services went down for a day, Cloudflare created a widespread issue on November 18.

The recent Cloudflare outage that took half the internet with it wasn't caused by some major new DDoS attack or a socially engineered hack of the company servers. Instead, it was triggered by a botched update.

X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, has been down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

I n a post on X, formerly Twitter, Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says “we failed our customers and the broader Internet” when a Cloudflare issue “impacted large amounts of traf