A major disruption in Cloudflare’s global network on Tuesday triggered widespread outages across several high-traffic platforms, including X, OpenAI services and President Donald Trump’s Truth Social. The outage led to a surge in complaints on Downdetector as users struggled to access multiple popular websites.
The problems began around 6 a.m. ET, when Cloudflare confirmed its systems were “experiencing issues,” affecting a range of services that depend on its infrastructure. As the outage cascaded, visitors to many websites were met with messages such as “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network” or prompts asking them to “please try again in a few minutes.” Some platforms, including OpenAI, displayed warnings instructing users to unblock Cloudflare challenge pages in order to proceed.
X, owned by Elon Musk, was among the platforms most visibly impacted, with users reporting feed failures, login trouble and broken media loading. Several online gaming services, including League of Legends, also reported disruptions linked to Cloudflare’s network instability.
Cloudflare acknowledged the widespread interruptions but said its teams were continuing to investigate the root cause. Even the company’s own status page briefly malfunctioned, failing to load correctly and appearing without its usual CSS formatting — a sign of deeper backend issues.
While services began recovering gradually, Cloudflare has yet to provide full details on what triggered the outage.
