Major Cloudflare outage took down ChatGPT, Spotify, and X Tuesday - here's what we know

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• A Cloudflare issue took many websites offline.
• Affected sites include X, ChatGPT, and more.
• The outages are eerily similar to ones earlier this year.

It wasn't just you, another internet outage took down some of your favorite sites this morning. As of 10 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said "a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved."

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Just before 7 a.m. ET, reports spiked that users were having trouble accessing X. Other sites, including the popular game League of Legends, ChatGPT, and Spotify were also down. Users quickly connected the dots and figured out all of those sites use Cloudflare to make ...