Cloudflare Outage Breaks the Internet: Why X, Gemini, Perplexity & Even ChatGPT Went Down Today

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The internet had a mini heart attack today.

Millions of users across the world suddenly found their favorite apps throwing 500 Internal Server Errors — from X (Twitter) to Google’s Gemini, Perplexity AI, OpenAI ChatGPT, and dozens of other major platforms.

The culprit?
A massive Cloudflare outage.

But here’s the real story: what caused it, how a single network layer can disrupt half the internet, and what it means for the future of web resilience.

Let’s break it down in a way that’s simple, accurate, and shareable.

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