Major Global Outage Hits X (Twitter), Gemini, Perplexity and Cloudflare
Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly Twitter) experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, affecting thousands of users globally including significant disruptions across India. The downtime began impacting both web and mobile applications, with over 10,000 user reports logged on Downdetector by 5:20 PM.
Key Service Disruptions
- X Platform: Complete outage affecting x.com website and mobile apps
- Cloudflare: Global network issues confirmed at 11:48 UTC
- Other Services: Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT reporting connectivity problems
User Impact Statistics
Downdetector data revealed the distribution of reported issues:
- Mobile app disruptions: 61%
- Website access problems: 28%
- Server connection failures: 11%
The technical issues appeared to be widespread, affecting users beyond India’s borders. Cloudflare acknowledged its global network was experiencing problems impacting multiple customers, while OpenAI confirmed ChatGPT and related services were down but didn’t attribute the cause to Cloudflare’s outage.
Users across multiple platforms including X, Gemini, and Perplexity reported encountering Cloudflare-related error messages during the service disruption period.
