A major outage at Cloudflare temporarily struck several high-traffic websites, including X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Google Cloud and Canva were also down. Users were unable to see posts made on the platform or upload new tweets. On X, a message appeared: 'Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later.'

The disruption began around 5 pm IST. Users trying to access websites that use Cloudflare services were shown the message, "internal server error on Cloudflare's network, please try again in a few minutes." Advertisement

Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, powers many aspects of the modern web, including content delivery, security, and traffic management. When its systems go down, the effects ripple across the internet, impacting a range

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