An outage affecting cybersecurity firm Cloudflare took down huge swathes of the internet with it on Tuesday, once again highlighting how a handful internet services allow the entire web to stay online.

Among the websites affected by the outage are gigantic services including X-formerly-Twitter, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Spotify.

Even Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages via user-submitted reports, was temporarily knocked down. (The website appears to have come back online, once again allowing users to report other websites that were taken down by the Cloudflare outage.)

Cloudflare said that it’s working hard to bring services back online and is “seeing services recover,” as Bloomberg reports.

While we await a postmortem of what actually happened, a Cloudflare spokesperson t

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