Staff Reporter:
A technical malfunction at Cloudflare on Tuesday evening caused parts of the Internet to go down, leaving many users unable to access popular platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), which showed error messages instead of loading normally.
Cloudflare, a key internet infrastructure provider that helps keep websites secure and functional during heavy traffic or cyberattacks, confirmed it was probing the issue.
“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers: widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing,” the company said in an update. “We are continuing to investigate this issue.”
Users affected by the outage reported seeing notices of an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network,” with prompts asking them to “please try again in a few minutes.”
