Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare. Here's what we know.

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

A widespread internet disruption is affecting popular platforms like X and ChatGPT due to issues with Cloudflare, a major content delivery network provider. Users are encountering error messages and are unable to access various websites and online services.

Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame.

Cloudflare has confirmed that they are facing technical problems that have caused outages across several major platforms including Elon Musk owned X , Open AI.For context, Cloudflare is an

A Cloudflare software failure caused major sites like Spotify, X and ChatGPT to go dark, highlighting the internet’s growing centralization.

Major websites, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Facebook and the social media platform X, have been hit by technical issues after a Cloudflare outage on Tuesday. However, several hours after reporting there was an issue, the company said on Tuesday afternoon that “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”.

On DownDetector, the issues with X are being reported as 58% app problems and 32% web. Users are unable to access their accounts on the app or on desktop. It is now reported that X is beginning to operate as normal with users being able to access their accounts.