Is your X, Zoom, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Spotify, Grindr, or other websites and apps down for you? Well, you’re not the only one! Thousands of internet users are reporting that those sites and tons more have gone down as Cloudflare suffers a widespread internet outage.
On Tuesday (November 18), internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage, booting several major websites offline for global users. At the time of publishing, several sites, including Elon Musk’s social media platform X, plus OpenAI’s ChatGPT, appear to remain down, affected by the Cloudflare outage.
According to Downdetector, a site that tracks website outages, at least 7,544 users reported a Cloudflare outage by 8:37 a.m. EST. Downdetector itself was also briefly down early Tuesday morning. It continues to show all of the above mentioned websites, plus tons more, still down according to thousands of user reports.
Furthermore, a Cloudflare spokesperson has claimed the company saw a “spike in unusual traffic” to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. EST. They believe the jump in traffic passed through its network, leaving thousands upon thousands of users to experience errors.
The spokesperson told Business Insider, “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.” The company said it was “continuing to investigate” the issues plaguing its network. The spokesperson added, “After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
On the Cloudflare status page, the company said it was experiencing an “internal service degradation” at 6:48 a.m. ET. Nearly 30 minutes later, it updated that some services were recovering, but “customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.” At 7:37 a.m. EST, the company claimed it was “continuing to investigate this issue.”
According to Business Insider, X and other websites were sporadically up and running around 8 a.m., but loading slowly. However, by 8:50 a.m., the sites were back down again. Subsequently, shares of Cloudflare have gone down by more than 5% in premarket trading.
UPDATE: By 10 a.m. PST, sites appeared to be loading back up.
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