OpenAI and X have been hit my outages this morning.

The website downdetector, which reports outages over 24 hour cycles, spiked enormously for X at around 11.30 a.m. GMT (3.30 a.m. PT), with nearly 4,500 reports. X appeared to return but in the past few minutes reports on downdetector have once again shot up.

At time of publication, the same website was carrying 730 reports of OpenAI outages in the past few minutes. Multiple other websites are also down.

The cause of the outages was not immediately apparent and neither site has issued a statement but reports said they were due to technical issues at Cloudflare, which hosts their servers. The OpenAI website currently reads: “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.” A system status from Cloudlfare in the past few minutes sai

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