A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, went down for many on Tuesday, due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT.

When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack.

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

Cloudflare experienced a "spike in unusual traffic” shortly before errors broke out across many major websites it serves, the internet infrastructure company told Newsweek. Read the full story here.

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.

Cloudflare was hit by an outage that knocked several major websites and services offline for global users. OpenAI's ChatGPT, e-commerce platform Shopify and Elon Musk's social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues.

Web services company Cloudflare said it is aware of problems impacting "multiple customers" amid reports of outages at apps including X.

Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network.

Cloudflare stock closed the Nov. 18 trading session 2.83% lower at $196.53. The outage exacerbated the ongoing sell-off of the stock, and the closing price is 22.4% lower than the stock's peak closing price of $253.30 on October 31.