If you tried logging onto X.com (previously known as Twitter) this morning, you were probably met with this message: “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.” Up until now, most online users hadn’t even heard of Cloudflare, but its widespread outage on Tuesday, November 18, caused a system meltdown. So, quite a few questions hang in the air as we wait for updates: Is X still down? What is Cloudflare? What other online platforms have been impacted today?

The Cloudflare outage comes weeks after the worldwide Amazon Web Services (AWS) debacle , which caused a mass internet outage in October, affecting banks, airlines and other essential businesses for a day.

Below, get updates on the Cloudflare outage.

What Is Cloudflare?

Like Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare is an interne

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