A massive Cloudfare outage led to issues on X, Spotify, ChatGPT, Mumsnet and Bet365 earlier today - problems remain despite a fix being announced

Georgia residents woke to popular services like Spotify and X not working and a message reading "unblock challenges Cloudflare." What happened?

Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare. Here's what we know.

The company behind the outage, Cloudflare, is responsible for providing a range of services for websites such as performance enhancement capabilities, security and application development tools through its global network. But on Tuesday, Nov. 18, the company’s outage took major websites such as X, Spotify and ChatGPT down with it.

A widespread internet disruption is affecting popular platforms like X and ChatGPT due to issues with Cloudflare, a major content delivery network provider. Users are encountering error messages and are unable to access various websites and online services.

The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and other platforms.

Web services provider Cloudflare got hit by an outage on Tuesday, disrupting access to many websites and services including OpenAI, Spotify, X, Grindr, Letterboxd and Canva. Cloudflare is a cloud services and cybersecurity company based in San Francisco that is used by approximately 20% of all websites,