Cloudflare down: Twitter, ChatGPT and hundreds of other websites faced disruption

Update: Cloudflare has confirmed that this incident has been resolved. The company said that its "services are currently operating normally. We are no longer observing elevated errors or latency across the network.

Our engineering teams continue to closely monitor the platform and perform a deeper investigation into the earlier disruption, but no configuration changes are being made at this time.At this point, it is considered safe to re-enable any Cloudflare services that were temporarily disabled during the incident. We will provide a final update once our investigation is complete."Original story follows

Users of several popular websites, including X (formerly Twitter) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have reported facing issues. The content delivery network provider, Cloudflare, is causing this multi-platform disruption. The company’s official status page has also confirmed the ongoing service degradation. According to the outage-tracking website Downdetector, the disruption began around 6:00 AM ET (4.30 pm IST) when an issue with Cloudflare's support portal provider surfaced, quickly spreading to broader service problems. Users trying to access affected sites are encountering difficulties, such as being unable to load posts on X, to use design tools like Canva and chatbots like ChatGPT, or to access specific online games like League of Legends.




In many cases, users attempting to reach these websites have reported being blocked by a generic message, such as "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed," which prevents access to the protected site. This message indicates that the security and challenge systems provided by Cloudflare are malfunctioning, even though the underlying websites themselves may remain operational.

The current downtime is tied directly to the issues Cloudflare is experiencing with its systems. The provider's role in delivering content and managing security challenges means its operational status impacts a wide range of internet services that rely on its network infrastructure.

What Cloudflare said about the server outage

In its official status page, Cloudflare initially wrote: "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

Later on, the company shared: "We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts. We are continuing to investigate this issue."

Cloudflare sits behind a substantial portion of the modern internet. It powers content delivery, security protections and tools that keep websites online during traffic spikes or cyber attacks. When its systems fail, the impact ripples far beyond any single service. This time was no different. A wide range of unrelated websites appeared to go down at the same moment, echoing the scale of last month's AWS outage.

List of website affected by Cloudflare outage

As Cloudflare provides DNS, CDN, and DDoS protection for thousands of businesses, the outage had a cascading effect. Among the most notable disruptions:

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