The internet is facing a global Cloudflare outage Tuesday morning, with major sites including ChatGPT, ClaudeAI and X struggling to load after a network issue.
Cloudflare confirmed the disruption and is said to be investigating the issue.
In a statement, the company said : ‘We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.’
‘We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.’
Frustrated users flooded X with complaints, including one who pleaded: ‘Could you unblock me from Discord please?’
Cloudflare’s stock slide deepened Monday as the tech firm struggled to get major companies back online.
Shares fell more than 3 percent after the opening bell, extending a brutal run that’s wiped out over 15 percent of the company’s value in just five days.
The selloff comes amid a broader tech rout that has erased billions from some of the industry’s biggest names as all three major indexes notch losses.
Now, investors are bracing for the week’s main event: Nvidia’s earnings.
The $5trillion chip titan reports on Wednesday — and analysts tell the Daily Mail that a blowout result could lift the entire tech sector, including Cloudflare, even as the company faces ongoing issues keeping American brands online.
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht apologizes on X for network outage
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht posted a statement on the company’s global outage on X.
Knecht apologized for the issues caused as a result and said the company ‘failed’ it’s customers, acknowledging the ‘impact it caused.’
‘Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.’
Elon Musk’s social media app crashed for thousands of users around the world ahead of Cloudflare outage
X (formerly Twitter) went down earlier today in an outage that affected thousands of users around the world.
According to Down Detector, issues with Elon Musk‘s social media app began shortly after 6:20 EST.
By 6:30 EST, there were more than 3,250 reports of service disruptions on the platform.
Cloudflare announce fix to network outages
Cloudflare released a statement announcing that they had solved their network issues on Tuesday.
In the statement, the company said: ‘A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.’
Cloudflare releases statement on outage
Cloudflare released an official statement on the network issues on Tuesday, saying the company would work to investigate the cause of the problem.
‘We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,’ the statement read.
‘We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic. We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com.’
Chaos online as massive Cloudflare outage cripples half the internet
Cloudflare has experienced a massive outage that has knocked dozens of major websites offline.
The company provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when Cloudflare goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, a failure that ripples across a huge portion of the internet.
Issues hit Cloudflare around 6:48am ET on Tuesday.
Downdetector, which tracks online outages, shows the Cloudflare glitch has affected X, Spotify, OpenAI, Uber, Grindr and many others.
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Cloudflare outage causes stocks to tumble as ChatGPT, Claude and X take major hits
