Several major websites worldwide — including the social media platform X — experienced significant disruptions on Tuesday due to issues with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
Cloudflare, in an update posted on its official service status page, confirmed it was investigating “an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” noting that more details would be shared as remediation efforts continue.
The company wrote:
“Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we can remediate—more updates to follow shortly.
“We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”
In Nigeria, several major news platforms — including Vanguard — also recorded intermittent downtime as the disruption spread.
Cloudflare provides critical backend infrastructure for millions of websites worldwide, including security verification, network protection, and traffic management. The company estimates that about 20% of all global websites rely on its services, meaning disruptions often have widespread ripple effects.
Although the full extent of Tuesday’s outage remains unclear, users also reported difficulties accessing other major platforms, including ChatGPT. OpenAI confirmed it was reviewing the issue but did not directly attribute the platform’s downtime to Cloudflare.
The incident comes just weeks after a prominent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage knocked over 1,000 websites and applications offline. Shortly after that event, Microsoft Azure also experienced service interruptions, highlighting the fragility of global cloud infrastructure.
