A widespread technical issue affecting Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has led to numerous websites, including X (formerly Twitter) and ChatGPT, becoming inaccessible to users globally.

Visitors attempting to reach sites that rely on Cloudflare’s core technologies which provide critical services like cyber-attack protection and traffic management are encountering error messages. Tracking site Down Detector also experienced issues, but confirmed a dramatic spike in outage reports, reflecting the broad impact.

The company has acknowledged the incident. Cloudflare issued an update stating, “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”

Affected users are typically met with an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network” message, instructing them to try refreshing the page shortly. This outage highlights the dependency of the modern online experience on infrastructure providers like Cloudflare. (AriseNews TV)