Millions of people across Europe, Asia and Africa were temporarily unable to access internet service on Tuesday as internet-infrastructure firm Cloudflare experienced major outage. The outage shutdown X (twitter), ChatGPT among other major websites.
The situation led to paralysed access to websites including e-commerce and news websites.
Several major Nigerian websites including newspapers, e-commerce sites were affected by the disruption as well.
The disruption began in the early hours of the day and forced Cloudflare to flag an “internal service degradation” while their technical experts and engineers worked to restore normal traffic
Cloudflare, a major global player that handles traffic for roughly one in five websites globally, reported the incident on its status page as an internal degradation that began shortly before 11:20 UTC.
The company said it was investigating unusual traffic patterns that coincided with rising error rates, and warned customers that elevated 500-class errors may persist while remediation continued.
Major platforms that rely on Cloudflare’s edge network, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Canva, Spotify and other services, displayed widespread failures showing that there was disconnection in London.
