Today, the internet practically collapsed. Around midday, millions of people suddenly realized they couldn’t access Twitter, ChatGPT, or countless other websites. Error 500 messages started popping up everywhere, and the world had one big question: “Is the internet down?!”
Moments later, the culprit revealed itself: Cloudflare.
Cloudflare Meltdown: Dashboard Down, API Down, Websites Down
At 11:48 GMT, Cloudflare confirmed what everyone feared — a massive global network failure. And it’s not just websites that went dark. Cloudflare’s own tools stopped working. The Dashboard is broken, the API is failing, and Error 500s are exploding across the web.
The company's official statement?
“We’re investigating.”
Not exactly comforting.
Support System Collapse: Users Locked Out
Cloudflare’s support portal also fell apart. Tickets aren’t loading, responses aren’t going through, and only Business and Enterprise customers have limited access to support. Everyone else is left stranded.
Twitter, ChatGPT, Websites… All Gone in an Instant
Any platform relying on Cloudflare infrastructure began failing one after another. Twitter? Down. ChatGPT? Struggling. News sites, gaming services, countless online tools—offline.
And here’s the best part:
Even DownDetector went down.
Yes, the site that tracks outages… was taken out by the outage.
As the chaos continues, the world asks the same desperate question:
“When will the internet come back?”