Cloudflare down live updates: Outage takes Claude, ChatGPT and thousands of other sites offline; Could you unblock me?

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 Cloudflares services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflares 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?

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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.

Chaos online as massive Cloudflare outage cripples half the internet

Cloudflare provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when it goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, making it the backbone of the internet.