Cloudflare outage disrupts online services

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A global outage of Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider, affected ChatGPT, X (formerly Twitter) and more internet services on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

Other services affected include Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and the video game League of Legends. 

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that protects websites from online threats. 

Issues reported include 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API (application programming interface, which allows different software programs to communicate) failures. 

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Cloudflare was still experiencing global network issues as of 8:10 a.m. Central time.

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