Cloudflare fixes outage that took down the internet: How social media reacted to the outage that took down Spotify, ChatGPT and hundreds of other websites
Cloudflare, which helps many websites work, faced a major outage today(November 18). However, the IT infrastructure company has now fixed the problem that prevented people from using many online services. This problem lasted for more than 2 hours and affected popular sites such as X (Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, Discord, and Canva. Many people couldn’t use these services, underscoring how important Cloudflare is to the internet’s functioning. When the internet was down, people turned to social media to discuss how the outage affected them. They were confused and annoyed that they couldn’t get access to several websites. These kinds of problems from major internet companies show how dependent online services are on Cloudflare. The company says the fix is in place and it is checking to make sure everything is back to normal. Meanwhile, here are a few social media posts that were shared on X during the outage that went viral:
