Cloudflare outage: Many apps and websites are offline right now, including X and ChatGPT [update: fixed]

Update: Cloudflare has said that believe they have now fixed the cause of the incidents, and normal service should resume.

A large number of apps and websites are currently taken entirely offline, or experiencing significant outages, due to an issue with the popular Cloudflare infrastructure network provider. The Cloudflare CDN powers the websites behind many high-profile apps, so any outage at Cloudflare has wide-reaching implications.

That includes social media site X (formerly Twitter), where users are currently unable to publish new posts or refresh their timelines. The problem appears to be impacting web users worldwide.

Cloudflare said it is investigating an issue which is causing error code 500 server outages, and confirmed the problem is impacting “multiple customers”. So far, the issue has been ongoing for about half an hour.

The issue is showing to some users as a web page that reads “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed”. Others see the more standard error code 500 messages.

As an end user, there’s not much more you can do right now than to wait for the issue to be resolved and for services to come back online.

Just last month, a similar set of circumstances happened at Amazon Web Services, causing mass outages with Amazon Alexa, Snapchat, ChatGPT and more.