A significant internet outage yesterday briefly knocked several major online platforms offline, including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, Canva, Letterboxd and popular online games such as League of Legends. The incident quickly drew attention to Cloudflare, the web infrastructure company whose services underpin millions of websites globally.

DownDetector, which aggregates real-time outage reports, detected a sharp surge in user complaints yesterday evening. The disruption originated from an unexpected issue linked to Cloudflare’s support portal provider, but the problem rapidly escalated into a broader service malfunction that impacted numerous websites relying on Cloudflare’s network.

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