Cloudflare outage disrupts major internet services including ChatGPT and X social media platform, affecting users worldwide as company works on fixes.

Major sites like X and ChatGPT were affected by the problems at Cloudflare, a core piece of internet infrastructure.

Internet infrastructure platform Cloudflare was dealing with an outage on Nov. 18, which was causing users issues with apps like Spotify and X.

Technical issues at Cloudflare have sparked concerns about another mass-online outage as users left unable to access multiple websites today (November 18).

If you're trying to play an episode on Apple Podcasts, you might have an issue today. Apple's podcasting platform was seemingly disrupted on Tuesday morning due to a large-scale Cloudflare outage that saw major online platforms affected.

Cloudflare has gone down, taking out large portions of the internet, including popular websites and games such as ChatGPT and League of Legends.

A widespread technical problem on the Cloudflare cloud infrastructure platform has caused access to a series of popular online services such as social network X, OpenAI's ChatGPT tool, and many online games to be interrupted.

For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is integral to so much human activity,

Cloudflare added, "Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable. We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve.