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A widespread internet disruption on Tuesday evening left several major platforms—including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Canva, and multiple online services—unreachable for millions across the world. The root of the outage was traced back to an issue within Cloudflare, a leading web-security and infrastructure company that sits quietly behind a huge portion of the global internet.

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What Is Cloudflare and Why Does It Matter?

Cloudflare Responds

Traffic Surge Behind the Meltdown

A Reminder of the AWS Outage

According to DownDetector, which compiles outage reports from user submissions and various online sources, the problems began when Cloudflare’s support portal provider

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